Thursday 27 March 2014

Dada-Archive donated to Museum Dr8888, the Netherlands

Dutch writer and art-critic K. Schippers donated his Dada archive to the Museum  Dr8888 in Drachten, the Netherlands. The museum is specialized in Dutch Dada. The archive consists of letters, clippings and photographs of Dutch Dada artists as Paul Citroen, Otto van Rees, Hendrik Werkman and the brothers Thijs and Evert Rinsema. The material was collected for his book Holland Dada, published in 1974. The museum plans to digitize the archive.


The donation will be part of the exhibition 'Holland Dada' and on view from April 12 to June 1, 2014 in Museum Dr8888.