Dada Death:

Berlin Dada developed more politically than any of the other of Dada's manifestations. It set out to sweep away the effects of abstract Expressionism, and to demand the introduction of radical Communism. In 1918, the painter George Grosz walked down the Kurfuestendamm in Berlin dressed as Dada Death, perhaps an image of the condition in which the Dadaists considered contemporary life to exist.

Carl R. Mueller, Experimental Theater