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Raoul Hausmann is emembered primarily for the central role he played in Berlin Dada with his assemblages, photomontages, and optophonetic poems, yet the vicissitudes of history caused his photography, an essential facet of his oeuvre, to be cast almost entirely into the shade.
From 1927 on, Hausmann became an avid and restless photographer in Germany, in particular during his stays at the North Sea and Baltic coasts. While in exile in Ibiza after the Nazis came to power, he took an interest in the local populace and vernacular architecture, before emigrating again in 1936.
During this intense decade, he reflected extensively on photography, developing a highly individual practice in the medium, simultaneously documentary and lyrical. This book reveals Hausmann´s interwar photographic work in its entirety, and presents a detailed time line of his life.

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Raoul Hausmann wurde 1886 in Wien geboren und starb 1971 in Limoges. 1901 siedelte er nach Berlin. 1918 war er einer der Mitbegründer von "Dada Berlin". 1933 bis 1938 emigrierte er nach Spanien und nahm auch am spanischen Bürgerkrieg teil. Im Laufe der Jahre siedelte er nach Paris über. Ab 1944 lebte und arbeitete er in Limoges.
1974/75 große Retrospektive im Musée National d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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