Cabaret Voltaire

1916 Hugo Ball (pictured) opened his Cabaret Voltaire (Café Voltaire), in Zurich, Switzerland. It became a meeting place for artists of the new anarchic art movement known as Dada. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp.

Cabaret Voltaire was frequented by such luminaries as Guillaume Apollinaire, Vassily Kandinsky, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Max Oppenheimer, Jules Laforgue and Vladimir Lenin ...

Categories: art, switzerland, dada