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Raoul Hausmann (Vienna, 12 July 1886 - Limoges, 1 February 1971) was a German artist. Raoul Hausmann represents one of the key figures of Berlin Dada and of the figurative art culture of the 20th century. Read the full biography

Raoul Hausmann (Vienna, 12 July 1886 - Limoges, 1 February 1971) was a German artist. Raoul Hausmann represents one of the key figures of Berlin Dada and of the figurative art culture of the 20th century. His experimental photographic collages, multi-material assemblages, sound poems and criticisms of institutions had a profound influence on the European avant-garde of the post-war period. And it is certainly no coincidence that his "mechanical head" from 1920 is considered one of the icons of the 20th century. He lived for a long time in Berlin and Weimar as a teacher at the Bauhaus. During Nazism, to escape the persecution that hit the exponents of the avant-garde, he moved first to Ibiza, then to Zurich, Prague and finally Limoges, where he stopped after the war and where he lived until his death. He played a central role in the Berlin Dada movement, working in particular in the photographic field. He is considered the inventor of photomontage, a technique which he passed on to Paul Citroen, his favorite student. In the 1960s his figure and his vision also had a great influence on American pop art artists, such as Yves Klein and Robert Rauschenberg who had important exchanges of letters with him