BAADER, Johannes

An architect by training, Baader became the ironic Oberdada in the brief life of Berlin Dada, proclaiming himself President of the League of Intertelluric Superdadaist Nations. As a dense collagist, he filched posters off the streets and mixed fragments of them with newspaper articles and miscellaneous numbers and letters. In 1919 and 1920, he exhibited two different versions of his Handbuch des Oberdadaismus (Manual of Superdadaism, abbreviated to HADO), which presages later book-art created mostly...