First International Dada Fair

…in 1920 helped organize the First International Dada Fair, a subverted version of an academic art exhibition. Works of art—defined as such by the Dadaists—were crammed into a small gallery, and all were for sale. Among the works Hausmann exhibited at the fair are some of his best known: a…

…and Hausmann, Heartfield organized the First International Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920, and one of his photomontages was used as the cover art for the exhibition catalogue. With Neue Sachlichkeit artist Rudolf Schlichter, Heartfield created Prussian Archangel, a dummy of a German soldier with a papier-mâché pig’s head that…

…1920 the group held the First International Dada Fair, which took on the traditional format of an art salon, but the walls of the site were plastered with posters and photomontages. Höch was allowed to participate only after Hausmann threatened to withdraw his own work from the exhibition if she…