Raoul Hausmann, self-styled “dadasoph“, “Director of the Circus Dada“, and autodidact, was among the most prolific and original artists of his time. Working as a painter, typographer, photographer, writer, fashion designer, dancer, theorist and publisher, Hausmann invented the “Optophon“, a device that correlates sight and sound, as well as the Sound- and Posterpoem. He developed the principle of the Dada photomontage with his companion at the time, Hannah Höch.
Born in Vienna a…
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