Which art movement was formulated as an anarchic form of expressionism in Zurich in 1916 possibly by poet Tristan Tzara?
Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich) Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich) Cabaret Voltaire was the name of an artistic nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings, in the back room of Holländische Meierei, Spiegelgasse 1, on February 5, 1916, as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp. Events at the cabaret proved pivotal in the founding of the anarchic art movement known as Dada. It closed in the summer of 1916. Switzerland was a neutral country during World War I and among the many
Tristan Tzara his early youth and was later married to Swedish artist and poet Greta Knutson. "S. Samyro", a partial anagram of "Samy Rosenstock", was used by Tzara from his debut and throughout the early 1910s. A number of undated writings, which he probably authored as early as 1913, bear the signature "Tristan Ruia", and, in summer of 1915, he was signing his pieces with the name "Tristan". In the 1960s, Rosenstock's collaborator and later rival Ion Vinea claimed that he was responsible for coining the "Tzara" part of his pseudonym in 1915. Vinea also stated that Tzara wanted to keep "Tristan"