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Cover: Der Dada. Edited
by Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, and George Grosz. 1919-1920.
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Dadaism began
to emerge as an artistic movement during World War I when artists clustered
around Dr. Richard Huelsenbeck
and Hugo Ball in Zurich. They came up with the name Dada when Huelsenback
and Ball were looking at words in a German-French dictionary and came
across dada, referring to “hobbyhorse.” The word captured
their imagination for it signified the power of the first childlike expressions—their
art was to be new and unfettered as a new baby. After the war, these
artists returned to their respective capitals—Paris, Berlin, Vienna.
Huelsenbeck who brought Dadaism to Berlin and from 1919 to 1923 published Der
Dada,
a periodical review that embodied revealutionary ideas of Berlin's Dada,
had a more articulated program than his colleagues in other capitals. “They
[the dadaists] were for the newest forms of abstract art, . . . and for
the art of chance,
of improvisation, and the unconscious. And against everything connected
with the Establishment.”
Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (Harper
Perennial: New York, 1995), p. 147.
While Dada had attracted many young artists in the early Weimar Republic,
by 1924 the movement declined in its influence on German culture. In
the aftermath of the 1923 inflation, Weimar leaders made a concerted
effort to face realities and make Germany a respected nation in the world
community. Ideas of objectivity and the practical took precedence over
the abstractions that had dominated works in Dada.
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