Dada's Whimsical Name

Dada's Whimsical Name. The Dadaists used a random word from a dictionary to name their movement, with one story claiming that Hugo Ball stabbed a dictionary wi…

Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Category: weird

The Dadaists used a random word from a dictionary to name their movement, with one story claiming that Hugo Ball stabbed a dictionary with a penknife and landed on the word 'dada', which means 'hobbyhorse' in French. Another theory suggests that the name came from a hair care product called 'DADA' that was popular in Zurich at the time.

Source: Dadaismus

Dada's Whimsical Name — Zurich, Canton of Zurich

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