Raoul Haussmann

At the beginning of 1918, Raoul Haussmann had started to make tables with fragments of posters, coloured bits of paper and newspaper cuttings. But it is at the time of a stay at the edge of the Baltic, with Hannah Hoch, that it had the idea of the photomontage. In almost all the houses where was hung, with the wall, a lithography color, image kind of Epinal, representing a pomegranate on bottom of barracks. To make this memorandum more personal, several families had had the idea to stick to the place of the head pomegranate a photograph of the son or the husband died in the face. It was like a flash, writing Hausmann, I live itself instantaneously to make tables entirely made up of cut out photographs In this he was followed by Hannah Hoch. The extract the Author, an autobiography (Olivier/the Threshold, 2001) and Roussel limited liability company (Al Dante/Scheer, 2003). If joining cubist allowed a new projection in the investigation of space, the photomontage makes it possible Hausmann to analyze the image and its operation. I adopted with the discovery of the photomontage a supra-realistic attitude, which makes it possible to work with a prospect in several centers and to superimpose objects and surfaces? , writes he in his synthetic Cinéma text of painting. Such a freedom makes it possible the artist to obtain complex images mixing the visual element, the letters, the words, often joining together the organic world, emotional and it mechanical.