Dada on the move

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1922 moskau

1916 – 1919 Zurich

Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky was introduced to Dada by Kurt Schwitters in Weimar and went on to play an important role in Constructivism.

Founded by exiled artists and intellectuals in Zurich�s old town, Dada�s anti-war, anti-bourgeois stance and its use of humor, irony, and nonsense appealed to creative circles worldwide.

dada on the move From Zurich, the Dadaists carried their art and philosophy out into the world, influencing artists and intellectuals as far away as Japan or the USA.

1921 – 1922 tirol

1920 Cologne

Spending time in the Tirol, Austria, the Dada founders continued to work on texts, collages, and images.

Police closed the exhibition by Max Ernst, Johannes Theodor Baargeld, and Hans Arp on grounds of obscenity. It later reopened.

1916 – 1923 new york Artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray engaged in anti-art activities early on – which they then set under the Dada umbrella. mexico city Arthur Cravan, a British citizen born in Switzerland, brought Dada to Mexico when he had to flee New York after a public provocation.

1923 tokyo In 1923, Hisao Maki, Tomoyoshi Murayama, and others founded the Dadaist-Constructivist group MAVO. They were part of the New Art Movement.

1920 – 1923 paris Instigated by Tristan Tzara and André Breton, Paris Dada provoked with art pieces, manifestos, plays and more.

1919 – 1937 hannover Rejected by the Berlin chapter, Kurt Schwitters founded his own Dada sub-movement which he called “Merz.” 1953 Israel

Founded by Marcel Janco, the Ein Hod artist colony is still a hub of artistic creation. 1923 amsterdam

1916 barcelona

The Dutch Dada movement around Theo van Doesburg focused on poetry. Its magazine “Mécano” was short-lived, however.

Former US box champion Jack Johnson fought Dada activist Arthur Cravan in a farcial boxing match.

1918 – 1923 berlin

1922 bucharest

In war-torn Berlin, the movement was more political and included proponents such as Hannah Höch and George Grosz.

Returning to Romania, Dada co-founder Marcel Janco founded the avant-garde magazine “Contimporanul.”


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