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Dada in Berlin
Radical Art from 1918
The Dada movement began as a political and artistic reaction to the First World War. The key protagonists in Berlin were Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, George Grosz and Johannes Baader. Dadaists used their work for radical attacks on German nationalism and militarism.
Dada evolved new forms of artistic expression that also fulfilled a desire to enlighten the public. Provocations and shock tactics – in works and on stage – were designed to make the audience reflect. Collages stuck together from newspaper clippings became Dada’s key medium. They were a vehicle for caustic and ironic commentaries on metaphysical ideologies in the recently founded Weimar Republic.
Dada subverted bourgeois ideas about what art is and how it should be produced. The Dadaists worked collaboratively and accepted random chance as a compositional principle. By including trivial everyday objects in their works they broadened the creative palette. Dada was united by an attitude, not by a style.
- Exhibited Objects
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- Hannah Höch (1889 - 1978)
Artwork "Dada Sculpture" (1919) by Hannah Höch
- ohne Datum
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 11,2 x 7,9 cm (Bildmaß)
- Unbekannter Fotograf und andere
Ohne Titel (Hannah Höch mit DADA-Puppen 1920, Berlin)
- 1970
- Silbergelantine, Vintage Print, ausgeschnitten auf Karton
- 14,4 x 10,2 cm (Außenmaß)
- Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948) und andere
Merz postcard collaged by Kurt Schwitters to Hannah Höch with illustration: Hannah Höch "Astronomy" (1922). [no location given]
- Ende 1923
- Papier, handgeschrieben, gedruckt; collagiert
- 14 x 9 cm (Blattmaß)
- Theo van Doesburg (1883 - 1931) und andere
Small Dada Soirée
- 10.01.1923
- Papier, gedruckt
- 30x30 cm (Außenmaß)
- Hannah Höch (1889 - 1978) und andere
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Original
dada2
- Original von 1922
- Faksimile (Original: Collage und Fotomontage auf Probedruck der Zeitschrift "Der Dada" 1. Jg. 1919, aufgelegt auf Karton)
- 45,2x58,6 cm (Blattmaß)
- Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971)
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Original
Die Menschen sind Engel und leben im Himmel
- Original von 1921
- Faksimile
- 31 x 20,7 cm (Bildmaß)
- Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971) und andere
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Original
Postcard from Raoul Hausmann to Hannah Höch
- 1921
- Faksimile
- George Grosz (1893 - 1959)
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Original
“Daum” marries her pedantic automaton “George” in May 1920, John Heartfield is very glad of it. (Meta-Mech. Constr. after Prof. R.Hausmann)
- Original von 1920
- Faksimile (Original: Aquarell, Bleistift, Tuschfeder und Collage auf Aquarellkarton)
- 42 x 30,2 cm (Blattmaß)
- George Grosz (1893 - 1959) und andere
The Philistine Gone Wild (Electro-Menchanical Tatlin Sculpture)
Electro-Mechanical Tatlin Sculpture- 1920
- Schneiderpuppe, Revolver, Klingel, Messer und Gabel ,"C", "27", Gebiss, schwarzer Adlerorden, EK II, Osram Glühbirne
- 130 x 45 x 45 cm (Objektmaß)
- Kunstsalon Dr. Otto Burchard und andere
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Original
First International Dada Fair, exhibition catalogue
- 30.6.1920
- Faksimile
- 28,4 x 35,4 cm (Außenmaß)
- Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953)
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Original
391, Paris, March 1920, no. 12.
- März 1920
- Faksimile
- 62,6 x 44,3 cm (Blattmaß)