HUELSENBECK, Richard

Incidentally residing in Zurich in 1916, this young German doctor participated in the beginnings of Dada, which he continued to support in Berlin in 1918. Huelsenbeck wrote the first history of Dada in 1920–21 and edited the Dada Almanach (1920), an anthology so well selected it was reissued in the original German by Something Else Press in 1966. After years as a ship's doctor cruising the world, Huelsenbeck landed in 1936 in New York, where he became a psychiatrist...