Global Context • 1923
Adolf Hitler makes his first attempt to seize power in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. During a brief imprisonment for treason, he writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The value of the German mark drops dramatically and the ensuing economic instability contributes to the popularity of the Nazi party, which Hitler reorganises in 1925.
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.