Johannes Theodor Baargeld

Johannes Theodor Baargeld or Zentrodada, civil Alfred Ferdinand Gruenwald, ( born October 9, 1892 in Stettin, † August 18, 1927 at Mont Blanc ) was a German painter, printmaker, writer and publicist of Dadaism.

Life and work

Baargeld grew up in Cologne. After graduation he studied in the years 1912/13, Law at Oxford University and continued his studies in Bonn on. During the First World War he served from 1914 to 1917 as a reserve lieutenant. In 1917 he began, lyrical and political texts for Franz Pfemfert magazine to write the action and joined in the following year the USPD. Baargeld was alongside Max Ernst in 1919 co-founded the Cologne Dada group. He gave the Dada magazine out the fan and a year later, together with Max Ernst, the shame made ​​( dilettantes rise up ).

In 1920 he was a participant at the First International Dada Fair in Berlin, gave a little later but completely out of the Dada movement back to take a degree in economics. On August 18, 1927, he was his passionate hobby, mountain climbing, to the fatal doom. He had an accident in 35 years on the Mont Blanc.