The first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus exclusively on the brief but hugely influential movement, Dada surveys the six principal cities in which its artists worked between 1916 and 1924. This exhibition represents nearly fifty artists in over 400 pieces including paintings, collage, photomontage, readymade constructions, photographs and printed matter.
The Berlin section of Dada reflects that this city pioneered the then new medium of photomontage, in the context of an overtly political tone. Club Dada artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield and Hannah Höch took this tone to reflect their collective disgust with German nationalism in the struggling post-World War I Deutsches Reich (German Empire). A rare group of collages by Johannes Baader are seen for the first time in the United States in this exhibition.
To view any of the other five galleries, please see the Dada at MoMA index page.
The Berlin section of Dada reflects that this city pioneered the then new medium of photomontage, in the context of an overtly political tone. Club Dada artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield and Hannah Höch took this tone to reflect their collective disgust with German nationalism in the struggling post-World War I Deutsches Reich (German Empire). A rare group of collages by Johannes Baader are seen for the first time in the United States in this exhibition.
To view any of the other five galleries, please see the Dada at MoMA index page.
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- The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home, ca. 1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Skat Players (Die Skatspieler), 1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- A Victim of Society (Ein Opfer der Gesellschaft), 1919Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- "The Convict": Monteur John Heartfield after Franz Jung's Attempt..., ca. 1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- fmsbwtözäu, poster poem, 1918Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age), ca. 1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Cover of the exhibition catalogue First International Dada Fair, July 1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Cut with the Kitchen Knife through ..., 1919-1920Image used with permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Graphic Index
- Text Index