Dada • 1921 • I
The leading organisers of the Dada Fair stand trial for slandering and defaming the army. Particularly offended by Heartfield and Schlichter's Prussian Archangel, the authorities fine the gallerist Otto Buchard and charge Schlichter, Grosz and Heartfield with an "affront to the armed forces of the Reich," demanding a six-week imprisonment. Sentencing is lenient, partly because the accused humbled themselves in their defence. Socialist critic Kurt Tucholsky comments that "the trial dilutes blood to lemonade. If Grosz didn't mean it like that, we did."
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.