Raoul Hausmann: Slicing Up Reality with Scissors
In 1918, while vacationing on the Baltic Sea, Hausmann and Hannah Höch found portraits of soldiers pasted onto generic landscapes. This inspired them to use cut-out media images to mock authority and create photomontage.
Chapter 1
The birth of Berlin Dada and photomontage
Chapter 2
The mechanical head and sensory art
Chapter 3
Exile, photography, and the Ibiza years
Ch 1 · The birth of Berlin Dada and photomontage
schopenhauer Berlin Dada and Photomontage
We cut the papers and we slice the daily press, To make a portrait of the chaos and the mess.
schopenhauer Hausmann co-founded the Berlin Dada group in 1918 to challenge traditional European art.
Fun Fact
Photomontage origin: Raoul Hausmann co-invented photomontage after seeing a seaside postcard where a soldier's face was pasted over a pre-printed portrait.
schopenhauer Hausmann's 1920 collage "Tatlin at Home" merged human brains with industrial machinery.
Glossary
photomontage (noun)
A composite artwork created by cutting and joining multiple photographic images. Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch pioneered this technique in 1918 while vacationing on the Baltic Sea.
A composite artwork created by cutting and joining multiple photographic images. Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch pioneered this technique in 1918 while vacationing on the Baltic Sea.
BETA
schopenhauer Cut and paste collage pieces to discover Raoul Hausmann’s revolutionary Dada masterpieces.
Quiz
Which artist was Raoul Hausmann's key artistic partner in inventing photomontage?
Quiz
Which machine-brained Russian artist is the subject of Hausmann's famous 1920 collage?
Quiz
What political event heavily influenced the aggressive, anti-war nature of Berlin Dada?