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Johannes Theodor Baargeld

Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892 - 1927) was active/lived in Germany, France.  Johannes Baargeld is known for Dada style collage, drawing.

Johannes Baargeld
Born 1892 Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland)
Died 1927 near Chamonix, France

Johannes Theodor Baargeld was the pseudonym adopted by Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Gruenwald as an ironic, leftist response to the predominantly Catholic and capitalist culture of his hometown, Cologne. (Bargeld is the German word for cash.) Born on October 9, 1892, in Stettin, Germany, Baargeld was the eldest son of the prominent Romanian-Jewish insurance director Heinrich Leopold Gruenwald. The future dadaist grew up in Cologne in a wealthy home, exposed to contemporary art and culture, beginning with his parents' collection of modern paintings. After finishing gymnasium in Cologne, Baargeld studied law and economics at Oxford from 1912 to 1913, and continued at the university in Bonn.

With the outbreak of war in 1914, Baargeld enlisted and served as a reserve lieutenant in the Rhineland Cuirassier Regiment of Count Gessler from 1914 to 1917, and became a lieutena   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3537 characters.]  Artist bio

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