Watercolor Paint
Watercolor paint is a water-based art medium made with pigment and a water-soluble binder, typically applied in transparent washes on absorbent paper.
Painter
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian Berlin Dada artist known for political photomontage, inventive typography, sound poetry, and experimental watercolor drawings.
Raoul Hausmann quick facts
Hausmann helped shape Berlin Dada, using mass-media fragments and typography to challenge artistic and political conventions.
| Born | 1886 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) |
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| Died | 1971 · Limoges, France |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Movements | Dada |
| Paint types | Watercolor Paint |
| Painting surfaces | Paper |
| Painting methods | Watercolor applied to pencil sketches and prints, cutting and juxtaposing photographs, type and printed fragments, and combining text with image |
| Common subjects | Modern society, mechanical figures, printed slogans, portraits, bodies in motion, and deliberately surprising composites |
| Notable works | Untitled (Men's Floor Exercises) · Material der Malerei Plastik Architektur · The Art Critic · Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age) |
| Other practice | Photomontage, colored woodcut books, found-object assemblages, and sound poems; these should not be mistaken for paint types |
Sources: MoMA: Men's Floor Exercises, watercolor on paper, MoMA: Material der Malerei Plastik Architektur, hand-colored woodcuts, MoMA: Plate with watercolor additions, Austrian National Library: Raoul Hausmann biography.
Paint types used
MoMA documents Hausmann's watercolor and pencil work on paper and woodcuts enhanced with watercolor. His better-known photomontages use printed fragments rather than paint.
Surface types used
Watercolor appears on paper in drawings and printed book pages, while his mechanical assemblage and photography belong to different material practices.
Paper
Paper is an absorbent sheet material made from pressed fibers, with weight, sizing, and surface texture controlling moisture tolerance and paint behavior.
Painters similar to Raoul Hausmann
Höch shared Hausmann's Berlin Dada photomontage experiments, while Grosz likewise criticized contemporary politics and urban society.
Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist who pioneered critical photomontage and combined printed imagery with watercolor, gouache, and painted abstraction.
George Grosz
George Grosz was a German-American painter known for savage satire, sharply observed Weimar-era portraits, urban scenes, and expressive works on paper.