art assignment- richard huelsenbeck

Richard hulsenbeck
Richard Hülsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I. Born 23 April 1892 in Frankenau, Germany.Died 30 April 1974 in Muralto, Switzerland. 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. 'To make literature with a gun in my hand had for a time been my dream,'(1) he wrote in 1920. His ideas fitted in with left-wing politics current at time in Berlin. However, idealistic Huelsenbeck and his companions were their challenge 'Dada is German Bolshevism' had unfortunate repercussions later, when the National Socialists denounced all aspects of modern art as Kunstbolschewismus. Later in life, he moved to New York City, where he practiced Jungian psychoanalysis under the name Charles R. Hulbeck. In 1970 he returned to the Ticino region of Switzerland. He died 1974 in Muralto, Switzerland.

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“Hatred of the press, hatred of advertising, hatred of sensations are typical of people who prefer their armchair to the noise of the street."