THE CONSTRUCTION OF INFORMATION The PhotoEssay in the Weimar Republic In 1919 Austrian artist Raoul Haussmann (1886-1971) found an image in the Berlin Illustrated News (Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung), a seemingly innocuous photographic portrait of the defense minister...
AFTER THE GREAT WAR Artists in Germany: George Grosz and John Heartfield in Dada Georg Groß was so horrified at the idea of doing his patriotic duty for the Kaiser and country that he went quite mad. The idea of descending into the hellish landscape of what would be...
INNOVATIONS OF DADA: PHOTOMONTAGE DADA IN BERLIN “The Dadaist should be a man who can fully understand that one is entitled to have ideas only if one can transform them into life—the completely active type, who lives only through action because it holds...
DADA: 1916 – 1922 History of Dada “In Zurich in 1915, losing interest in the slaughterhouse of the world war, we turned to the Fine Arts. While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all out...