After Dada

<p>What happened in 1920s Cologne 'after Dada'? Whilst most standard accounts of Cologne Dada simply stop with Max Ernst's departure from the city for a new life as a surrealist in Paris this book reveals the untold stories of the Cologne avant-garde that prospered after Dada but whose legacies have been largely forgotten or neglected. It focuses on the little-known Magical Realist painter Marta Hegemann (1894-1970). By re-inserting her into the histories of avant-garde modernism a fuller picture of the gendered networks of artistic and cultural exchange within Weimar Germany can be revealed. This book embeds her activities as an artist within a gendered network of artistic exchange and influence in which Ernst continues to play a vital role amongst many others including his first wife art critic Lou Straus-Ernst; photographers August Sander and Hannes Flach; artists Angelika Fick Heinrich Hoerle Willy Fick and the Cologne Progressives and visitors such as Kurt Schwitters and Katherine Dreier.<br><br>The book offers a significant addition to research on Weimar visual culture and will be invaluable to students and specialists in the field.</p>