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Raoul Hausmann
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Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer.
Raoul hausmann biography of rory
One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European avant-garde in the aftermath of World War I.
He is best-known for his sculpture Mechanischer Kopf (1920), an assemblage of a hairdresser's wig-making dummy with various measuring devices attached.
Overview
He was born in Vienna but moved to Berlin and became a co-founder of the Berlin Dada movement in 1917. He was one of the Berlin dadaists who created photographic collages out of cut-up photographs in the summer of 1918.
Hausmann, along with German Dadaists George Grosz, Helmut Hertzfelde aka John Heartfield, and Hannah Höch, pushed the idea of the photographic collage and the use of mass-printed source material by i