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Dadaists Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris ...

. It includes those who are generally classed into different

movement Movement may refer to: Common uses * Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece * Motion, commonly referred to as movement Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...

s, but have created some Dadaist works. {{TOCright

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Pierre Albert-Birot Pierre Albert-Birot (22 April 1876 – 25 July 1967) was a French avant-garde poet, dramatist, and theater manager. He was a steadfast avant-garde during World War I, through the magazine ''Sic'' he created and published from 1916 to 1919. He wa ...

(22 April 1876 – 25 July 1967) * Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) *

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He wa ...

(October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982) *

Jean Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born in Straßburg (now Stras ...

(September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966) *

Alice Bailly Alice Bailly (25 February 1872 – 1 January 1938) was a Swiss avant-garde painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, futurism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement. In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris ...

(February 25, 1872 – January 1 1938) *

Johannes Baader Johannes Baader (June 21, 1875 – January 14, 1955), originally trained as an architect, was a German writer and artist associated with Dada in Berlin. Life Baader was born in Stuttgart, where his father worked as a metalworker at the royal ...

(June 22, 1875 – January 15, 1955) *

Johannes Theodor Baargeld Johannes Theodor Baargeld was a pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (9 October 1892 – 16 or 17 August 1927), a German painter and poet who, together with Max Ernst, founded the Cologne Dada group. He also used the name Zentrod ...

(October 9, 1892 – August 16 or 17, 1927) *

Hugo Ball Hugo Ball (; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry. ...

(February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927) *

André Breton André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...

(February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966) *

Gino Cantarelli Gino Cantarelli (1899 – 1950) was an Italian Dadaist poet and painter of the early 20th century. He was associated first with Futurism, then with Dada. He often wrote his poems in French. Born in Mantua, from 1917 to 1920 Cantarelli publishe ...

(1899 – 1950) *

John Covert (painter) John Covert (1882 – 1960) was an American painter born in Pittsburgh, USA. Life and career Covert began his formal studies in painting at the Pittsburgh School of Design in 1902 under Martin Leisser and then, upon receiving a German gover ...

(May 22, 1887 – November 1918?) *

Jean Crotti Jean Crotti (24 April 1878 – 30 January 1958) was a French painter. Crotti was born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland. He first studied in Munich, Germany at the School of Decorative Arts, then at age 23 moved to Paris to study art at the ...

(April 24, 1878 – January 30, 1958) * Theo van Doesburg (August 30, 1883 – March 7, 1931) *

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

(July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968)

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* Viking Eggeling (October 21, 1880 – May 19, 1925) *

Paul Éluard Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal ...

(December 14, 1895 – November 18, 1952) * Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 – April 1, 1976) *

Julius Evola Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly ...

(May 19, 1898 – June 11, 1974) * Lyonel Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) *

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self ...

(12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927) *

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

(July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) * Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) * John Heartfield (June 19, 1891 – April 26, 1968) *

Emmy Hennings Emmy Hennings (born Emma Maria Cordsen, 17 January 1885 – 10 August 1948) was a poet and performing artist, founder of the Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire with her second husband Hugo Ball. Life and work Hennings was born on 17 January 1885 in ...

(February 17, 1885 – August 10, 1948) * Wieland Herzfelde (April 11, 1896 – November 23, 1988) * Hannah Höch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) * Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 – April 30, 1974) * Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 –)

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* Marcel Janco (May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984) * Tsuji Jun (October 4, 1884 – November 24, 1944) *

Yves Klein Yves Klein (; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein w ...

(April 28, 1928 – June 6, 1962) (see Neo-Dada) *

Hans Leybold Hans Leybold (2 April 1892 – 8 September 1914) was a German expressionist poet, whose small body of work was a major inspiration behind much of the Dada movement, in particular the works of his close friend Hugo Ball. Although Leybold died two y ...

(April 2, 1892 – September 8, 1914) * Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) * Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer (1887 – 1970) * Pranas Morkūnas (October 9, 1900 – December 28, 1941) *

Clément Pansaers Clément Pansaers (1 May 1885 – 31 October 1922) was the main proponent of the Dada movement in Belgium. He began writing poetry in 1916 after abandoning his career as an Egyptologist. Along with several members of the Brussels avant-garde cir ...

(May 1, 1885, – October 31, 1922) *

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism ...

(January 28, 1879 – November 30, 1953) *

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, although his t ...

(August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) *

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (June 19, 1884 – July 9, 1974) was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet. In addition to numerous early paintings, Ribemont-Dessaignes wro ...

(June 19, 1884 – July 9, 1974) * Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976)

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Yi Sang Kim Hae-Gyeong (hangul: 김해경, hanja: 金海卿, September 23, 1910 – April 17, 1937), also known as his pen name Yi Sang (hangul: 이상, hanja: 李箱) was a writer and poet who lived in Korea under Japanese rule. He is well-known fo ...

(September 14, 1910 – April 17, 1937) *

Christian Schad Christian Schad (21 August 189425 February 1982) was a German painter and photographer. He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna a ...

(August 21, 1894 – February 25, 1982) * Rudolf Schlichter (December 6, 1890 – May 3, 1955) *

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, pain ...

(June 20, 1887 – January 8, 1948) *

Walter Serner Walter Serner (15 January 1889 – August 1942) was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto ''Letzte Lockerung'' was an important text of Dadaism. Life Walter Serner was born Walter Eduard Seligmann in Karlovy Vary, Carlsbad (Ka ...

(January 15, 1889 – August 1942) *

Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault ini ...

(August 2, 1897 – March 12, 1990) * Sophie Taeuber (January 19, 1889 – January 13, 1943) *

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

(April 4 or 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) * Louis Norton-Varése (20 November 1890 – 1 July 1989) * Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) *

Fried-Hardy Worm Fried-Hardy Worm (8 February 1896, Berlin – 29 August 1973, Berlin) was a left-wing German journalist, satirist and publisher. He was a soldier in the First World War and participated in the November Revolution in 1918. Active in the Spartacist ...

(February 8, 1896, Berlin – August 29, 1973) *

Marius de Zayas Marius de Zayas Enriquez y Calmet (March 13, 1880 – January 10, 1961), was an early 20th-century Mexican artist, writer and art gallery owner who was influential in the New York arts circles of the 1910s and 1920s. Life De Zayas was born to we ...

(March 13, 1880 – January 10, 1961) *