Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer. He experimented with photographic collages. Around 1923, Raoul would create montages of cut outs of magazines locally and stick them together. He believed war at the time to be a necessary cleansing of a calcified society. He would find portrait of soldiers, onto which he had glued photographic portrait heads of his son five times. Some would say he’s mentally unstable to the fact that he agreed with war. His feelings towards war and that time or era seemed to be all expressed into his art pieces.

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Photo Analysis –

This image was probably anonymous figures cut from a magazine. Raoul’s work seemed to have a meaning behind why exactly he made this photomontages. As he believed war was a cleansing of a calcified society, using soldiers bodies from a poster or magazine and sticking others heads to it might suggest that he feels as if we should fight for ourselves, fight for rights. The fragment of a German banknote behind the neck of the anonymous figure suggests that he is controlled by capitalist forces. This is because German were invading berlin , where Raoul is from, and taking over the country. The words in the background are part of a poem poster made by Hausmann to be pasted on the walls of Berlin. As well as montages made he was a poet who sees poems to be an art that can link into his montage work. This is another way for Raoul to express his impressions of the time of the World War 1. This piece of art in particular was made with different materials that were assembled together.