Meeting of Constructivists and Dadaists, Weimar, 25 or 26 Sept. 1922
I did post this photo previously but without the full caption; searching for it, I then realized that this picture was regularly and wrongly (in websites as well as in some books) identified with the caption of a second photo of the same event. So there it is then:
from top to bottom and from left to right
1st row : Lucia Moholy, Alfréd Kemény, László Moholy-Nagy
2nd row : Lotte Burchartz, El Lissitzky (with pipe and cap), Cornelis van Eesteren, Bernhard Sturtzkopf
3rd row : Max Burchartz (with child on his shoulders), Harry Scheibe, Theo van Doesburg (with paper hat), Hans Vogel, Peter Röhl
4th row : Alexa Röhl (in all black), Nelly van Doesburg, Tristan Tzara, Nini Smit, Hans Arp
5th row : Werner Graeff and Hans Richter (on ground)
Note : This “Nini Smit” close to Hans Arp and shown in both photos is obviously (for me) Sophie Taeuber (who will marry Arp on the 20 Oct. 1922).
Agree? Desagree?…
Ref. : Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman. ‘Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity’ (The Museum of Modern Art, 2009)
- About this meeting (1922) : at MoMa
photo from: Zeitgeist! Eu Acredito!
 Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp, Max Burchartz, Lotte Burchartz, Hans Richter, Nelly van Doesburg, Cornelius van Eesheren, Theo van Doesburg
yama-bato:
ANONYME REUNION DADA A WEIMAR, Septembre 1922 Photographie en noir et blanc Tirage argentique Cachet de la succession Hans Richter au dos 12,5 x 8,5 cm Numéro d’inventaire de la succession: PH3-49 Note: De gauche à droite : Kurt Schwitters, Jean Arp, Max Burchartz, Mme Burchartz, Hans Richter, Nelly van Doesburg, Cornelius van Eesheren, Theo van Doesburg](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyizdcjllw1qahuhjo1_1280.jpg)
![The meeting of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar, 1922
billyjane:
The meeting of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar, 1922. Theo van Doesburg (in paper hat) with El Lissitzky (smoking pipe) behind him, and Tristan Tzara (with walking stick), Hans Arp (extreme right), and Hans Ricther (lying on the ground).
In the autumn of 1922 van Doesburg invited Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter and some other proponents of constructivism who were living in Germany to participate in a conference at Wiemar, where he was then living and where the Bauhaus had been established some three years earlier. There to their surprise - since most of them did not then know that van Doesburg under the pseudonym of I.K. Bonset, was also an active Dadaist - the constructivists were met by Hans Arp, Tristam Tzara, Kurt Schwitterr and other members of the dada movement. Though the encounter was distasteful to many of the younger Constructivists, who regarded Dadaism as a negative infuence, the Weimar meeting revealed some of the positive facets of Dadaism and helped to establish a bridge between the major movements.
[photo via kunst_weimar and text from Herbert Spencer, Pioneers of Modern Typography. MIT Press, 1969 via kon st blog]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9hxeh8kDC1qztk1wo1_500.gif)
