Raoul Hausmann as an Austrian artist and writer who was a key figure in the Berlin Dada.
His experimental photographic collage, sound poetry and institutional critiques had a profound influence on the european Avant-garde in the aftermath of World War 2.
His earliest experience of making art was from his farther who was a professional conservator and painter. His experimental prints were influenced by Herwath Walden who he saw in the Der Sturm gallery in 1912.
In keeping with the expressionist views of the time he initially welcomed the war, believing it to be a necessary cleansing of a calcified society.
Hausmann met Hanna Höch in 1915, having an extramarital affair that produced an 'artistically productive' but turbulent bond that lasted until 1922. Two other influential people in his life were Otto Grass and anarchy writer Franz Jung.
The notion of destruction as an act of creation was the point of departure for Hausmann's Dadasoph, his theoretical contribution to the Berlin Dada.
Berlin Dada.
When Richard Huelsenbeck (a close friend of Hugo Ball and one of the founders of Zurich Dada), returned to Berlin in 1917, Hausmann was one of a group of young disaffected artists that began to form the nucleus of Berlin Dada around him. Huelsenbeck delivered his First Dada Speech in Germany, January 22, 1918. Over the course of the next few weeks, Hausmann, Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Jung, Höch, Walter Mehring and Baader started the Club Dada. The first event staged was an evening of poetry performances and lectures against the backdrop of a retrospective of paintings by the establishment artistLovis Corinth at the Berlin Sezession 1918.
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