Georg Grosz dressed as Dada Death.

Berlin 1918

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