Died #OTD 3 May 1955, Rudolf Schlichter, co-creator (with John Heartfield) of the notorious 'Prussian Archangel', a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head.

Displayed at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, the organizers were charged with "insulting the Reichswehr" because of it.

#OTD 25 January 1917, the first issue of 391 magazine is published in Barcelona.

Digital copies downloadable from:
monoskop.org/391

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#OTD January 20 1921, Oberdada Johannes Baader holds a Faschungs-Dada-Ball at the #Berlin Zoological Gardens.

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#OTD in 1922: Carl Einstein's trial for blasphemy in his book 'Die Schlimme Botschaft' begins.

The first blasphemy trial in the Weimar Republic,he and his publisher Ernst Rowohlt are found guilty and fined.

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#OTD in 1920:

Festival #Dada at the Salle Gaveau, Paris

Hell yeah John Heartfield:

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#OTD in 1916

The first night of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, taken to be the foundational moment of #dada.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret...