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Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded th…
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culture · Romanian-French poet (1896–1963) · art collector · poet · writer · diplomat · film director · translator · playwright · essayist · composer · performance artist · also Tristan Tzara, Samy Rosenstock, Samuel Rosenstock, S. Samyro, Tristan Samuel Rosenstock, Rosenstock Tristan Samuel
Born 16 April 1896 · Died 25 December 1963 · Q16409
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2025· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Tristan Tzara and Dada
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2015· 1 entry
Artnet: New Exhibition Shows Dada Pioneer Tristan Tzara Was More Than Just a Wacky Character
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Discography”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released ep “Da Ne Zaboravis”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Omorina Nad Evropom”.
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1996· 1 entry
Was depicted on a series of Romanian stamps, and, the same year, a concrete and steel monument dedicated to the writer was erected in Moinești
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1977· 1 entry
Literary historian Edgar Papu, whose controversial theories were linked to "protochronism", which presumes that Romanians took precedence in various areas of world culture, mentioned Tzara, Urmuz, Ionesco and Isou as rep
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1975· 1 entry
And an international poetry award is named after him (Prix International de Poésie Tristan Tzara)
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1972· 1 entry
Art historian Serge Fauchereau, based on information received from Colomba, the wife of avant-garde poet Ilarie Voronca, recounted that Tzara had explained his chosen name was a pun in Romanian, trist în țară, meaning "s
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1965· 1 entry
Two years after Tzara's death)
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1963· 3 entries
Died 1963-12-25.
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“Dada belongs to everybody.”
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“If I shout:Ideal, Ideal, IdealKnowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge,Boomboom, Boomboom, BoomboomI have recorded fairly accurately Progress, Law, Morals, and all the other magnificent qualities that various very intelligent people have discussed in so many books.”
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1962· 1 entry
When he attended the International Congress on African Culture, organized by English curator Frank McEwen and held at the National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
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1961· 1 entry
As recognition for his work as a poet, Tzara was awarded the prestigious Taormina Prize
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1960· 1 entry
Was among the intellectuals who protested against French actions in the Algerian War
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1955· 1 entry
By À haute flamme ("Flame out Loud") and Le Temps naissant ("The Nascent Time"), and the 1956 Le Fruit permis ("The Permitted Fruit")
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1949· 2 entries
Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti made Tzara the subject of one of his first experiments with lithography
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Introduced Picasso to art dealer Heinz Berggruen (thus helping start their lifelong partnership), and, in 1951, wrote the catalog for an exhibit of works by his friend Max Ernst; the text celebrated the artist's "free
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1947· 2 entries
Became a full member of the PCF (according to some sources, he had been one since 1934)
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Claimed to have been captivated by "the sweet language of Moldavian peasants"
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1942· 1 entry
With the generalization of antisemitic measures, Tzara was also stripped of his Romanian citizenship rights
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1936· 1 entry
Richter recalled, he published a series of photographs secretly taken by Kurt Schwitters in Hanover, works which documented the destruction of Nazi propaganda by the locals, ration stamp with reduced quantities of food,
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1934· 1 entry
And featured the 1913–1915 poems Tzara had left in Vinea's care
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1931· 1 entry
The young, modernist literary critic Lucian Boz evidenced that he partly shared Vinea's perspective on the matter, crediting Tzara and Constantin Brâncuși with having, each on his own, invented the avant-garde
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1930· 1 entry
Directed and produced a cinematic version of Le Cœur à barbe, starring Breton and other leading Surrealists
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1929· 1 entry
Reconciled with Breton, and sporadically attended the Surrealists' meetings in Paris
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1925· 3 entries
Tristan Tzara was in Stockholm, where he married Greta Knutson, with whom he had a son, Christophe (born 1927)
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After filing a request with Romania's Ministry of the Interior
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Fondane rendered a pronouncement by Jean Cocteau, who, while commenting that Tzara was one of his "most beloved" writers and a "great poet", argued: "Handkerchief of Clouds was poetry, and great poetry for that matter—bu
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1924· 3 entries
Published and staged the play Handkerchief of Clouds, which was soon included in the repertoire of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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When he issued the first Surrealist Manifesto
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And again during the "new art demonstration" of 1925
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1923· 1 entry
And a few other former Dadaists collaborated with Richter and the Constructivist artist El Lissitzky on the magazine G, and, the following year, he wrote pieces for the Yugoslav-Slovenian magazine Tank (edited by Ferd
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1922· 2 entries
“As early as 1914, I tried to strip the words of their proper meaning and use them in such a way as to give the verse a completely new, general, meaning [...].”
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Tzara himself wrote: "As early as 1914, I tried to strip the words of their proper meaning and use them in such a way as to give the verse a completely new, general, meaning [
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1921· 2 entries
Ion Vinea wrote an article for the Romanian newspaper Adevărul, arguing that the movement had exhausted itself (although, in his letters to Tzara, he continued to ask his friend to return home and spread his message ther
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When they jokingly asked him to grant them permission to use "Dada" as their own name (to which Tzara replied: "Dada belongs to everybody")
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1920· 1 entry
When Breton first made known his wish to do away with musical performances altogether and alleged that the Romanian was merely repeating himself
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1919· 1 entry
Tzara, by then one of the "presidents of Dada", joined the staff of Littérature magazine, which marked the first step in the movement's evolution toward Surrealism
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1917· 1 entry
Was in correspondence with both Apollinaire and Marinetti
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1914· 1 entry
Studying mathematics and philosophy, but did not graduate
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-04-16.
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