- Bhagwan Dada
Bhagwan Dada (1913 - February 4, 2002) was an Indian actor and film director. He is best known for his social film "Albela". - Mukasa Dada
Mukasa Dada, formerly known as Willie Ricks, is a civil rights activist. He won the support of thousands of working-class Africans when he chanted "Black Power" while Martin Luther King campaigned for what he termed an "integrated power." Dada frequently visits Morehouse College, but has subsequently been barred from the campus. - Nayyar Ali Dada
Nayyar Ali Dada (Urdu: نیر علی دادا, is a renowned Pakistani architect. Born Nayyar Ali Zaidi, he was given his commonly recognized last name by a teacher for his painting and drawing skills. His family were originally Indian Muslims, but migrated from Delhi to Lahore in the 1950s, where he, in 1957, enrolled into Punjab University. Two years later, he entered Pakistan's National College of Arts, … - Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (pronounced) (July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968) was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War II Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world. While he is most often associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, his participation in Surrealism was largely behind the scenes, … - Man Ray
Man Ray (August 27, 1890-November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. - Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara ("Sami Rosenstock a.k.a. Samuel Rosenstock") (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963) was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborater with Marcel Janco. It is speculated that the word "Dada" comes from the Romanian "Yes, yes" and is thus originated from Tzara and Janco's contributions. - Max Ernst
Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976) was a German Dadaist and surrealist artist. - Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. - André Breton
André Breton (February 19, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". - Francis Picabia
Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. Born in Paris, he studied at École des Beaux-Arts and École des Arts Decoratifs. In the beginning of his career, from 1903 to 1908, he was influenced by the impressionist painting of Alfred Sisley. From 1909, he came under the influence of the cubists and the Golden Section (Section d'Or). - Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball was a German author and poet. Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany and was raised in a Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (1906–1907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt. He was one of the leading Dada artists. - George Grosz
George Grosz was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. - Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona, Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to "kill", "murder", or "rape" them in favor of more contemporary means of expression. - Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian sculptor and writer. He was one of the key figures of Dada. 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, … - Hans Richter
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 - February 1, 1976) was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. - Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon, French poet and novelist, a long-time political supporter of the communist party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. - Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (first name occasionally spelt Saurav) is an Indian cricketer. Born 8 July 1972, lives at Barisha in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, West Bengal, he made his One Day International debut against Australia in 1992, and a Test debut versus England in 1996. He went on to become the captain of Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, … - Erik Satie
Satie and furniture music: not all of Satie's music is "furniture music". In the strict sense the term applies only to five of his compositions, which he wrote in 1917, 1920, and 1923. For the first public performance of "furniture music" see Entr'acte. Satie as precursor: the only "precursor" discussion Satie was involved in during his lifetime was whether or not he was a precursor of Claude Debussy, but many would follow. - Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War One. He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire. In January 1917, he moved to Berlin, taking with him the ideas and techniques which helped him found the Berlin Dada group. - John Heartfield
John Heartfield is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. He chose to call himself "Heartfield" in 1916, to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War I - Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. Though many refer to him as a comedian, Kaufman did not self-identify as one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood; instead, he saw himself as a practitioner of anti-humor or dada absurdist performance art. - Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Grindel, a French poet born in Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, who was active in the surrealist movement. He later joined French Communist Party, which lead to his break from the Surrealists, and eulogised Stalin in his political writings. At age 16, after a happy childhood, Éluard contracted tuberculosis and interrupted his studies. He met Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, whom he married in 1917, … - Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a Dada artist born in Gotha, Germany. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. - Otto Dix
Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he is one of the most important artists of the "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity). - Marcel Janco
Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895 - April 21, 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli artist, painter and architect. - Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (July 4, 1900 - June 8, 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played key role in the surrealistic movement at the time. - Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. The first book of automatic writing, "Les champs magnétiques" (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. - Ben Vautier
Ben Vautier, also known simply as Ben, is a French artist. He lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop when he was young. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the music of John Cage and all the Fluxus artistic movement in the 1960s. - Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. He grew up in Basel and belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in 1950s and 60s. He signed the manifest of the New Realism movement ("Nouveau réalisme") in 1960. His self-destroying "Homage to New York" (1960) failed to self-destruct at the Museum of Modern Art, … - Arthur Cravan
Arthur Cravan (born May 22, 1887, Lausanne, was last seen at Salina Cruz, Mexico in 1918 and most likely drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in November 1918). He was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements. His real name was Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. He had a brother, Otho, born 1885. - Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling (October 21 1880-May 19 1925) was a Swedish artist and filmmaker. His work is of significance in the area of experimental film, and has been described as absolute film and Visual Music. In 1918 he and Hans Richter were introduced to one another by Tristan Tzara. Richter wrote that "The contrast between us, which was that between method and spontaneity, only served to strengthen our mutual attraction for three years we marched side by side, … - Benjamin Péret
Benjamin Péret was a French poet and Surrealist. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899, and enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed. He saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war. Afterwards, he joined the Dada movement, and in 1921 published a collection of poetry. He left the Dada movement with André Breton and joined Surrealism. He worked with and influenced other poets such as Octavio Paz and Andre Breton. - Tom Zé
Tom Zé is a Brazilian songwriter and composer. "Tom Zé" is a faithful informalization of his given names, literally meaning "Tony Joe". - René Clair
René Clair was a French filmmaker. - Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 - March 12, 1998) was an American artist and ceramicist, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, "Titanic". Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California. - Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven) (July 12 1874 - December 15 1927) was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who spent most of her life in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States. - Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" (New Ways) in 1952. He was a good friend of Friederike Mayröcker. In 1973 he co-founded the "Grazer Autorenversammlung" in Graz, became its vice president in 1975 and was its president from 1983 to 1987. In his poems, he plays with the German language, in many different ways, … - Emmy Hennings
Emmy Hennings (February 17, 1885 - August 10 1948) was a performer and poet. She was also the wife of celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball. Despite her own achievements, it is difficult to come by information about Hennings that is not directly related to her relationship with Hugo Ball. - Jacques Rigaut
Jacques Rigaut was a French surrealist poet. Born in Paris, he was part of the Dadaist movement. His works frequently talked about suicide and in 1929 at the age of 30, as he had announced, Rigaut took his own life. He was then residing in Patchogue, New York. He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre. Rigaut's works include: * "Agence Générale du Suicide" * "Et puis merde!" * "Papiers Posthumes" * "Lord Pachtogue" - Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, and sculptor. Sophie Täuber studied applied art in Munich and Hamburg. In 1915 she met Jean Arp and they married in 1922. Both were involved in the Zürich Dada movement. She designed puppets and sets for Cabaret Voltaire performances, where she also participated as a puppeteer and as a dancer. Taeuber-Arp also taught at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts from 1916 to 1929.
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