Raoul Hausmann, “Reported Portrait” at Chateau de Rochechouart © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Repro: MACHV–Chateau de Rochechouart und Berlinische Galerie/Anja Elisabeth Vitte
If you wish to know the way radical “Dada” truly was once, you must have a look at the lifetime of Raoul Haussmann (1886–1971) – this visionary and provocateur believed handiest in the next day to come, and regarded as everybody provide as the day gone by. He made a decisive contribution to the established order of the Dada motion in Berlin all through the First Global Battle; he created collages of brutal harshness after which pictures of atypical tenderness. Raoul Hausmann is the nice unknown of German artwork from the interwar length – the newest episode of Augen zu, the ZEIT artwork podcast, is devoted to him.
The Berlinische Galerie in Berlin is these days devoting a very good exhibition to Hausmann (till March 16), which – evolved by way of Ralf Burmeister – illuminates all levels of the wild genius’s paintings and lifestyles. They and the accompanying catalog are the start line of this podcast. Florian Illis and Giovanni di Lorenzo ask what Hausmann’s particular art-historical importance is, why he was once portrayed thrice by way of the nice photographer August Sander, and why he frequently drove his companions loopy, like Hanna Hoch, with whom he was once in combination for 8 years and who created a few of her maximum essential works all through this intense segment of her lifestyles.
