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Title Hugo Ball performing Karawane at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
Maker Hugo Ball (German, 1886–1927)
Date 1916
Type photograph

This photograph was taken at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, Switzerland, among the earliest meeting grounds for Dada activities in Europe. The inscription reads “Verse ohne Worte im kubistichem Kostüm” (Verse without words in a cubist costume).

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Ball, Hugo. Hugo Ball performing Karawane at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 1916. . In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/005/.