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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Died #OTD 3 May 1955, Rudolf Schlichter, co-creator (with John Heartfield) of the notorious 'Prussian Archangel', a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head. Displayed at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, the organizers were charged with "insulting the Reichswehr" because of it.
Photo of the opening of the First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, with Schlichter's and Heartfield's 'Prussian Archangel' (a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head) hanging from the ceiling.
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
#OTD 25 January 1917, the first issue of 391 magazine is published in Barcelona. Digital copies downloadable from: monoskop.org/391 #dada
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#OTD January 20 1921, Oberdada Johannes Baader holds a Faschungs-Dada-Ball at the #Berlin Zoological Gardens. #dada
Invitation card for Faschings Dada Ball, held by Oberdada Johannes Baader in the Berlin Zoological Gardens, January 20, 1921.
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
#OTD in 1922: Carl Einstein's trial for blasphemy in his book 'Die Schlimme Botschaft' begins. The first blasphemy trial in the Weimar Republic,he and his publisher Ernst Rowohlt are found guilty and fined. #dada #history 🗃️
Newspaper reporet of Carl Einstein's blasphemy trial, 1922. New York Herald, 15v October 1922.
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
#OTD in 1920: Festival #Dada at the Salle Gaveau, Paris
Program for the Festival Dada at the Salle Gaveau, Paris, 26 March 1920
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Hell yeah John Heartfield: #Dada
John Heartfield's photomontage of Thyssen pulling the puppet Hitler's strings:
    Werkzeug in Gottes Hand? Spielzeug in Thyssens Hand!
    God's instrument? Thyssens toy!
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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
#OTD in 1916 The first night of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, taken to be the foundational moment of #dada. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret...
Poster for the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire on 5 February 1916, lithograph by Marcel Slodki.
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