Tristan Tzara emigrated from Romania to Zurich in 1916 and, together with Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings and Hans Arp, helped found Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire that year. His role expanded from reciting his own and others' poetry to actively coordinating and promoting Dada events and publications, and he became one of the movement's most visible polemicists through manifestos that pushed its anti-rationalist, provocative program. After leaving Switzerland in 1919 he settled in Paris, where he continued Dadaist activity alongside Andre Breton and Louis Aragon before the movement's energies fed into Surrealism. He later disputed with fellow Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck over who actually coined the word Dada itself, a contested point within the movement's own internal history.
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Active From Year Active To Year TrainingPoet and essayist rather than visual-arts trained; educated in Romania before emigrating to Switzerland in 1916. 1 Connections
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Co-founder of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916; primarily a poet and polemicist rather than a visual artist, so no practices-art-form edge or signature museum-held work is recorded for him.
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Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist.
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His role expanded from reciting his own and others' poetry to actively coordinating and promoting Dada events and publications, and he became one of the movement's most visible polemicists through manifestos that pushed its anti-rationalist, provocative program.
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