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Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. [1] A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. [1]
Yves Klein (April 28, 1928 – June 6, 1962) (see Neo-Dada) Hans Leybold (April 2, 1892 – September 8, 1914) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer (1887 – 1970) Pranas Morkūnas (October 9, 1900 – December 28, 1941) Clément Pansaers (May 1, 1885, – October 31, 1922)
In 1916 Hugo Ball opened the Cabaret Voltaire, which was to become the centre of Dada activities in Zürich for a group that included Arp, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, and others. [9] In 1920, as Hans Arp, along with Max Ernst and the social activist Alfred Grünwald, he set up the Cologne Dada group.
Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsense word.
Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry, and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.
Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; 6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement.
Höch was a pioneer of the art form that became known as photomontage and of the Dada movement. Many of her pieces sardonically critiqued the mass culture beauty industry of the time, then gaining significant momentum in mass media through the rise of fashion and advertising photography.