RAOUL HAUSMANN

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. Raoul Hausmann was born in Vienna but moved to Berlin with his parents at the age of 14, in 1901.His earliest art training was from his father, a professional conservator and painter. He met Johannes Baader, an eccentric architect and another future member of Dada, in 1905. At around the same time he met Elfride Schaeffer, a violinist, whom he married in 1908, a year after the birth of their daughter, Vera. That same year Hausmann enrolled at a private Art School in Berlin, where he remained until 1911. His is an artist and writer associated with the Dada movement in Berlin.

The International Dada Archive has extensive holdings of works by and about Hausmann. The Archive has microfilmed the Hausmann papers in Limoges. Other microfilmed collections with substantial material by or about Hausmann are the Hannah-Hsch-Nachlass at the Berlinische Galerie, the Schwitters-Archiv at the Stadtbibliothek Hannover and the Michael Erlhoff Collection in Hanover.

 

“Dada conquerors” Raoul Hausmann 1920

This painting shows a number of people who are talking and planning of a way of action. Men talking to each other, or they standing and thinking alone, I think Haussmann is trying to talk about aspect of his personal life as someone who studied anatomy, from the picture or piece of the human brain and also bring the dada culture in practice looking at the world map with the dada culture in it.

GEORGE GROSZ

George Grosz was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of a pub owner. His parents were devoutly Lutheran. Grosz grew up in the Pomeranian town, where his mother became the keeper of the local Hussar's Officers' mess after his father died in 1901. At the urging of his cousin, the young Grosz began attending a weekly drawing class taught by a local painter named Grot. Grosz developed his skills further by drawing meticulous copies of the drinking scenes of Eduard von Grützner, and by drawing imaginary battle scenes. From 1909–1911, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently studied at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts under Emil Orrick.

In November 1914 Grosz volunteered for military service, in the hope that by thus preempting conscription he would avoid being sent to the front. He was given a discharge after hospitalization for sinusitis in 1915. In 1916 he changed the spelling of his name to George Grosz as a protest against German nationalism and out of a romantic enthusiasm for America that originated in his early reading of the books of James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte and Karl May, and which he retained for the rest of his life. (His artist friend and collaborator Helmut Herzfeld changed his name to John Heartfield at the same time.) In January 1917 he was drafted for service, but in May he was discharged as permanently unfit.

"People," George Grosz, 1919

 “People” George Grosz, 1919

In this piece we can see people going about their way of life and how busy they day can be for everybobdy. People with different form of carrer , looks like they are going to work. Looking at the man in his uniform and the others dressed in a profersional maner. I think George in this piece is telling us how life was and how the people went about it.

 

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