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• Anastasia Akhtyrko , (Moscow 1902 - Moscow, 1968). Russian painter. Student Laboratory technical-artistic higher education in Moscow, she took the first theater experiences abstract (1921). Follower of the constructivist trend, she met Tristan Tzara in Berlin in 1925, she made a portrait .

• Guillaume Apollinaire (Rome, 1880 - Paris, 1918). Poet, essayist, columnist French. He met future Dada Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in 1912, who admire him in his taste for daring and his "new spirit". Duchamp dedicate the readymade "Apolinre Enameled" and Picabia publishes in its magazine "391" the calligram "The Clock of Tomorrow". Since its birth in Zurich Dada group does not hide his admiration, his poems are read over the manifestations of the Cabaret Voltaire, Tzara and sent him the first Dada journal. In the context of war, censorship and brainwashing, Apollinaire succumbs to warmongering patriotism that holds it to make its full support to the movement. At his death, a sincere tribute to him is rendered in the third issue of "Dada" .

• Louis Aragon (Paris, 1897-1982). French poet and novelist.

• Walter Conrad Arensberg , (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1878 - Los Angeles, 1954). Poet, writer, critic and American patron. Louis Stevens with his wife, they opened in 1912 in New York, a salon that becomes the center of the avant-garde and American intellectual. In 1913, they organized the first exhibition of avant-garde of the "Armory Show". Arensberg began collecting paintings, the most modern. He donates much of his collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art holds the largest collection of works by Marcel Duchamp .

• Cline Arnauld , (nee Goldstein Carolina. Calarasi, Romania, 1885 - Paris, 1952). French poet and novelist. One of the few women with Suzanne Duchamp , having actively participated in the Dada movement in Paris from 1920 to 1924. Creator of the magazine "Spotlight" (number one). Friends Francis Picabia and Rene Hilsum who would publish his works until the 1930s. She committed suicide two months after the death of her husband Paul Derme .

• Jean or Hans Arp (Strasbourg, 1886 - Basel, 1966). Sculptor, painter and poet Alsatian. Founding member of the Dada movement and host of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (1916). With Sophie Taeuber , they realize several works together. "The return to innocence that calls Dada is reflected by the involvement of chance in the genesis of the artwork or use some automatic processes" . Joined the movement surrealist upon his arrival in Paris in 1926.

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• Johannes Baader , (Stuttgart, Germany, 1875 - Adeldorf, Germany, 1955). German writer. Billing itself as "Ober dada. " He made collages, most of which was destroyed during the Second World War. Hausmann : "Without Baader , Dada would not have taken place in Berlin. "

• Johannes Theodor Baargeld (born Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Gruenwald, Stettin, Germany, 1892 - Mont Blanc, France, 1927). German journalist and writer. Nicknamed "Zentrodada. He tried drawing, collage and photomontage by himself. Max Ernst : "There is only one real president here except me (in Cologne) is Baargeld. . He denies Dada in 1921.

• Hugo Ball (Pirmasens, Germany, 1886 - Sant'Abbondio, Switzerland, 1927). German writer and poet. One of the founders of Dada evenings and host of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. It owes its international renown to a photo where he appears frequently reproduced in a silver suit and rigid set an erect phallus. He broke away and without any explanation with Dada in May 1917.

• Jacques Baron (1905-1986). French poet. After meeting with Louis Aragon and Andr Breton at the "tour through Paris voluntarily places derisory" organized by the group Dada Paris (April 14, 1921) , he participated in the magazine "Adventure" trends Dadaists collegially headed by Marcel Arland , Ren Crevel , Georges Limbour , Max Morise and Roger Vitrac. The following year he attended Breton adventure in surreal.

• Erwin Blumenfeld. German painter and designer. Close friend of Paul Citroen , he met Dada Berlin in 1917 or 1918. He left Berlin for Amsterdam, adapts his name in January Bloomfield and co-directs, with Citroen 's Central Dada Holland. "I wrote stories of the day, at night, I became a Sunday painter .

• Andr Breton (Tinchebray, Orne, 1896 - Paris, 1966). Poet, writer, French essayist, theorist and leader of surrealism. An admirer of Dada in 1918, it took the arrival of Tristan Tzara in Paris in January 1920 that Breton become one of the organizers of the most active and creative evenings Dada Paris. Fearing that the nihilism of Dada is not connected to the infantilism, he distanced himself from the movement after the "Trial Barres "(May 1921).

• Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia (born Franoise Madeleine Marie Gabirlle Buffet, Fontainebleau, 1881 - Paris, 1985). Musician and critic of French art. She studied music at the Schola Cantorum with Vincent d'Indy and then in Berlin with Ferruccio Busoni. In 1908, she met Francis Picabia. They married the following year. It encourages Picabia to compose his paintings as music. She met the Italian composer Alberto Savinio , interested in the experiences of noisy Luigi Russolo and contributes to "Les Soires de Paris", "Camera Work" and "Dada." She accompanies Picabia in Zurich where they met Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara. It makes contact between Tzara and the Dada in New York. She has published a book of memories about this period of artistic avant-garde "abstract Aires" .

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• Serge Charchoune , (1888-1975). Russian painter and poet. After leaving Russia in 1914 to Barcelona, where he met Arthur Craven and Francis Picabia , he moved to Paris in 1919. He met the Dadaists Festival Dada of the Salle Gaveau (May 26, 1920) and participates in their events including the "Minutes Barres "(May 1921) and the Dada exhibition organized by the gallery Montaigne Tristan Tzara (June 1921). He exhibits drawings inspired by works "mechanical" Picabia and also composed a poem illustrated with twelve drawings' Crowd still "very well received by the Dadaists. In turn, he created a group called Dada "Palata Poetov" ("The House of Poets"), which meets in a cafe in Montparnasse (December 1921). Hoping to finally get a visa, he went to Berlin in May 1922. He created a review Dada in Russian "Perevoz Dada" ("The Transporter Dada"), publishes an anthology of poetry Dadaist German, French and Russian "Dadaizm, kompilacija" and contributes to various magazines like "Merz" by Kurt Schwitters.

• Christian (pseudonym of Georges Herbiet, Antwerp, 1895 - Paris, 1969). Bookseller, poet and literary critic. Friend of Francis Picabia , he holds, Saint-Raphal (Var) from 1920 to 1923, the library "The nice copy" specializes in broadcasting and magazines Dadaist works .

• Hans Citroen , (Berlin, 1905 - Israel, 1984). German-born designer. Younger brother of Paul Citroen. Four of these works are exhibited at the first International Dada Fair in Berlin .

• Paul Citroen (Berlin 1896 - Wassenaer, Netherlands, 1983) Dutch painter and draftsman. Elder brother of Hans Citroen. Meets Berlin Dada in 1917 or 1918. Co-directs with Erwin Blumenfeld Central Dada Holland. Away from Dada in 1921 to join the Bauhaus .

• John Covert , (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1882-1960). American painter. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp , it combines painting materials of any kind and his taste for mathematics and cryptography. His abstract paintings are considered the closest to the spirit of Dada in New York .

• Arthur Craven (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd in Lausanne, 1887 - Mexico (?), 1918). Boxer and poet. Publisher and sole editor of the magazine "Now" (1912-1915), his eccentricities and his provocations are a precursor of Dada. He disappears into the Gulf of Mexico during a boat trip.

• Jean-Joseph Crotti (Bulle, Switzerland, 1878 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, 1958). French painter. He joined Parisian Dada through Suzanne Duchamp , painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp (1916). Together, they attempt to create a movement that is both mystical and Dadaist called "Tabu-Dada" (1921) .

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• Derme Paul (born Camille Janssens, Liege, Belgium, 1886 - Paris, 1951). Writer, Belgian poet, literary critic and director of magazines. Nicknamed "Proconsul Dada. "

• Otto Dix (Gera, Germany, 1891 - Singen, Germany, 1969). German painter.

• Katherine Dreier. Although the collector of the works of Marcel Duchamp and co-founder with him the first American museum devoted to contemporary art, she objected to the exhibition of " Fountain ", a work emblematic of the concept of ready-mades.

• Marcel Duchamp (Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime, 1887 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, 1968).

• Suzanne Duchamp (Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime, 1889 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, 1963). Painter. Sister of Marcel Duchamp, she sees both in France and New York. One of the few women painters of the group Dada Paris. In 1919, she married John Joseph Crotti , and together they try to impose a new wave mixing Dadaism and mysticism called "Tabu- Dada ".

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• Viking Eggeling (Sweden, 1880-1925). Swedish filmmaker. Collaborator of Hans Richter.

• Carl Einstein , (Neuwied, Germany, 1885 - Betharram, France, 1940). Writer, historian and art critic. Dadaist Berlin trend anarchist. Creator, with George Grosz from the magazine "Der Blutige Ernst" (deadly serious) in 1919 .

• Paul Eluard , (Saint-Denis, Seine-St-Denis, 1895 - Charenton-le-Pont, Val de Marne, 1952). French poet. He attended all the events in Paris Dada.

• Max Ernst (Brhl, Germany, 1891 - Paris, 1976). German painter and sculptor. It creates the group Dada in Cologne in 1918 with Johannes Theodor Baargeld. In 1922 he moved to Paris and is closer to the surrealists.

• Julius Evola (Evola born Giulio Cesare, Rome, 1888-1974). Philosopher, poet and painter in Italy. Interested in the latest trends in modern art, he corresponded with Tristan Tzara.

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• Theodore Fraenkel (1896-1964). French writer and physician. Classmate of Andre Breton College Chaptal in Paris. He contributes to "Proverb", " Dada in the open air "and" Literature "and the various manifestations Dada Paris between 1920 and 1921. Discreet and aloof, he turned to medicine after the rupture between the Dadaists and Surrealists in 1923 .

• Otto Freundlich (Stolp, Germany, 1878 - Lubin-Majdanek, Poland, 1943, died in deportation). German sculptor and painter. Engaged in Novembergruppe and co-organizer, with Johannes Theodor Baargeld and Max Ernst exhibition Dada in Cologne in 1919.

• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven , (Born Elsa Hildegard Pltz, Swinemnde, Germany, 1874-Paris, 1927). Dada artist and muse of New York. Surnomme "Dada Baroness". She created the sculpture "God" usually attributed to Morton Schamberg and she is the star of a film co-directed by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray entitled "Baroness shaves his pubic hair" .

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• Jefim Golyscheff (Kherson, Ukraine, 1897 - Paris, 1970). Russian composer and painter. Although it is no affinity with the Dadaists in Berlin, preferring artists expressionists of Novembergruppe , he was invited to play his "Antisymphonie" during the evening Dada , 30 April 1919. He also signed the manifesto "What does Dada and what does he want in Germany? "In 1922, he distanced himself from the movement to get closer to Walter Gropius , founder of the Bauhaus.

• George Grosz (Berlin, 1893-1959). German painter. "Marshal Propagandada. Organizer of the first international exhibition Dada in Berlin in June 1920 with Raoul Hausmann and John Heartfield.

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• Marsden Hartley

• Raoul Hausmann (Vienna, 1886 - Limoges, Haute-Vienne, 1971). Artist and writer. "Der Dadasophe." Founder with Richard Huelsenbeck group Dada Berlin in 1917. The photomontage was his field of expression par excellence.

• Paul Haviland

• John Heartfield , anglicized voluntary Helmut Herzfeld (Berlin, 1891-1968). German painter and photographer. Friend of George Grosz , who introduced the motion Dada (1918). In 1920 he abandoned painting for the photomontage.

• Julius Heuberger. Swiss printer. He crafted several books Dadas whose first three issues of the journal " Dada "and" Twenty-five poems "of Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp.

• Rene Hilsum. French publisher and bookseller. In 1919, he founded the publishing house "Au Sans Pareil" intended to publish the writings Dadaists , opens a bookstore under the same name that became a place of daily meeting of Dada (1920) and organized the first exhibition devoted to Max Ernst (1921). Until its bankruptcy in 1936, it will continue, without interruption, publishing books Dada .

• Hannah Hoch , (Gotha, Germany, 1889 - Berlin, 1978). German visual artist. "Dadasophin. Experiments with collage and photomontage with Raoul Hausmann. Only woman to have competed in events Dada in Berlin.

• Jakob van Hoddie

• Angelica Hoerle , (nee Fick, Cologne, Germany, 1899 - Cologne, 1923). German designer. Considered so condescending as the hostess of "Dadaheim.

• Hoerle Heinrich (Cologne, Germany, 1895 - Cologne, 1936). German painter and writer.

• Richard Huelsenbeck (Frankenau, Germany, 1892 - Minusio, Switzerland, 1974). German writer and poet. One of the founders of Dada and host of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, and promoter of poetry recited noisy as insults and accompanied by percussion. In 1918, with Raoul Hausmann , he founded the "Club Dada in Berlin" and organized the first International Dada Fair in Berlin (June 5, 1920).

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• Marcel Janco , (Bucharest, 1895 - Tel Aviv, 1984). Romanian painter and architect. One of the founders of Dada and host of the Cabaret Voltaire.
• Joostens Paul (Antwerp, 1889-1960). Belgian painter and illustrator. He created many collages and works on the magazine ira! " open to European avant-garde.

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• Mina Loy

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• Emile Malespine , (Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1892 - Paris, 1953). Psychiatrist. In 1922, he founded the magazine "gauge" open to all currents of the international avant-garde. In 1925, the tone is abandoned for a Dadaist "suridalisme" in open opposition to surrealism called "accessory shop that unpacks" .

• Pierre de Massot. Attending the "Night of the so-called" Heart to beard "(July 6, 1923) alongside Tristan Tzara , he offers surrealist Andre Breton , Robert Desnos , Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret an excuse to interrupt when he improvises a declamation " Andre Gide , who died in battle. Pablo Picasso , who died in battle. Francis Picabia , who died in battle. Marcel Duchamp disappeared ... " .

• ELT Mesens (Brussels, 1903-1971). Belgian writer. Frequent late the Dadaists in Paris in 1922 and works to the latest issue of the journal of Francis Picabia's "391". Then turns to the surrealism.

• Agnes Ernst Meyer (New York, 1887 - Mount Cisco, 1970). Poet and writer. Friend of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz , she provides financial assistance to open an art gallery and create the magazine "291". Even if it does not fully protesters positions of Dada, she published in 1915, the poem "Mental Reactions" whose typography inspired both of Futurism and Dadaism , which was a first of its kind in United States .

• Lszl Moholy-Nagy , (1895 - Chicago, 1946). American painter and photographer of Hungarian origin.

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• Neuhuys Paul (Antwerp, 1897-1984). Poet Belgian. Predominantly French writer, he created in the early 1920s, with Willy De Koninck , the magazine ira! " open to European avant-garde.

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• Clement Pansaers (Neerwinden, Belgium, 1885 - Brussels, 1922). Belgian artist and writer.

• Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879-1953). French painter and poet. Artist representative of the avant-garde painting with Marcel Duchamp in 1913, he rallied Dada in 1916, then broke with the movement in July 1921.

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• Man Ray (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1890 - Paris, 1976). Painter, photographer and filmmaker U.S.. Facilitator of the movement Dada in New York with Marcel Duchamp until 1921, when he moved to Paris and meets the surreal.

• Georges-Ribemont Dessaignes , (Montpellier, Herault, 1884 - Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, 1974). Poet, writer, playwright and painter French. Participates in events Dada group in Paris from 1920 to 1922.

• Hans Richter (Berlin, 1888 - Locarno, Switzerland, 1976). American painter and filmmaker. Endorses the group Dada in Zurich in 1916.

• Jacques Rigaut , (1898 - Chatenay-Malabry, Yvelines, 1929). French poet. Comes into contact with the group Dada Paris. Stay with Tristan Tzara at the break with the Surrealists in 1923.

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• Erik Satie (Honfleur, Calvados, 1866 - Paris, 1925). French pianist and composer. Unreceptive to any musical expression, the Dadaists in Paris as future Surrealists were not recognized as one of their composer of "Music of furniture." Only Tristan Tzara testified to his constant friendship .

• Schad Christian (Miesbach, Germany, 1894 - Stuttgart, 1982). Painting and German photographer .

• Morton Schamberg (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1881-1918). American painter .

• Rudolf Schlichter (Calw, Germany, 1890 - Munic, 1955) German painter. Actor of " Novembergruppe "(1919) in which he met George Grosz and John Heartfield who decide to participate in the group Dada Berlin .

• Georg Scholz (Wolfenbttel, Germany, 1890 - Waldkirch, Germany, 1945). German painter .

• Kurt Schwitters , (Hanover, Germany, 1887-1948). German artist and writer. Denied by the group Dada Berlin in 1919, he created a movement both parallel and concomitant with Dada , "Merz".

• Walter Serner (Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, 1889-1942). Writer speaking world. He met the Dadaists in Zurich in 1916, including, Christian Schad , who becomes his friend. In the latter, he suggested the technique of the photogram (photography without a camera) and Tristan Tzara called "schadographie.

• Claude Sernet (Ernest Born in Tirgu Ocna Spirt, Romania, 1902 - Paris, 1968). Romanian poet. First texts published under the pseudonym of Mihail Cosma in the magazine "75 HP" created by Victor Brauner and Ilarie Voronca. In 1925 he moved to Paris and met Fondane Benjamin and the band The Great Game.

• Soupault Philippe (Chaville, Yvelines, 1897 - Paris, 1990). French poet and novelist. The arrival in Paris of Tristan Tzara (January 1920) coincides with the first event Dada which is part Soupault. A time known as "Philip Dada," he plays the part of Tzara's "Symphonic Vaseline." If he refuses to Andre Breton its support to the Paris Congress in 1922, he distanced himself from Dada following year.

• Alfred Stieglitz (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1884-1946). Photographer and art dealer. Quoted to have photographed for posterity, the "original" ("Lost" since) the "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp in 1917.

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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp , (Davos, Switzerland, 1889 - Zurich, 1943). Dancer, painter and sculptor Switzerland. One of the founders of Dada and host of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. In 1926, with her husband Jean Arp , she left Zurich Dada , and settled near Paris and is involved with the surrealists.

• Dorothea Tanning

• Clara Tice

• Tristan Tzara (Moineti, Romania, 1896 - Paris, 1963). Romanian poet and essayist. One of the founders of Dada and host of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. In a correspondence with Andr Breton in December 1918 he arrived in Paris in January 1920 and participated in demonstrations Dada group in Paris. The "Trial Barres "in May 1921 reveals the differences between Breton and Tzara. The representation of the turbulent "Gas Heart" by Tristan Tzara , July 6, 1923, uses the rift between Dada and Surrealist and marks the end of the band Dada in Paris.

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• Jacques Vache (Lorient, 1895 - Nantes, 1919, suicide (?)). Writer, illustrator and painter French. Although Andr Breton wrote in the " Manifesto of Surrealism "(1924):" Jacques Vache is surreal to me, "the behavior of" young red-haired man "during his brief teenage" desertion within itself, "referring to Alfred Jarry , "the Umour (no h)," has all the characteristics of a precursor of Dada.

• Theo Van Doesburg , (Utrecht, Netherlands, 1883 - Davos, Switzerland, 1931). Designer, painter and poet Dutch. Founder of "De Stijl" in 1918, he published in the journal of the same name an extract from the Manifesto Dada 1918 "(February 1920). He attends demonstrations Dada Paris and publishes documents sent by the groups in Berlin and Paris. Under the pseudonym of IK Bonset, it creates the journal Dada "Mecano" (1922) .

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Bibliographic Sources

• Laurent Le Bon (edited by) " Dada ", catalog of the exhibition at the Pompidou Centre on 5 October 2005 to January 9, 2006, Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005. (Le Bon)
• Giovanni Lista Dada libertin & libertarian, "The Unusual, Paris, 2005 (Lista)

References

• Gateway to the History of Art
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• Portal Painting

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