HAUSMANN, Raoul

Born in Vienna, Hausmann spent his teen years in Berlin, where as a young man he met Johannes Baader , who joined him and Richard Huelsenbeck in founding the Dada Club in 1918. Before long Hausmann became, in Marc Dachy's summary, painter, craftsman, photographer, creator of photomontages, visual concrete poet, sound poet, theoretician, prose writer, technician, journalist, historian, magazine editor, dancer, and performer, which is to say a Polyartist. In 1919, Hausmann...