Johannes Theodor Baargeld was a pseudonym

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 of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (9 October 1892 - 16 or 17 August 1927), a German

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 painter

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 and poet

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 who, together with Max Ernst

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, founded the Cologne

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 Dada

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 group. He also used the name Zentrodada in connection with Dada.

Baargeld was born in Stettin (Szczecin)

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, Prussian Pomerania. He studied jurisprudence

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 at Oxford and Bonn

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. Baargeld was the editor of the periodical The Fan (Der Ventilator) which Ernst and Hans Arp started in 1919, and he collaborated on many other Dadaist publications such as Bulletin D and Dada W/3.

Baargeld also colloborated with Max Ernst on some of the collages used in Ernst's Fatagaga series.

Baargeld gave up painting in 1921 and died in an avalanche

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 while climbing Aiguille de Bionnassay

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 in the French Alps

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