Global Context • 1918 • III
German soldiers returning from the front, impoverished and disconnected from civilian life, turn to the paramilitary organisation of the Freikorps. Supported controversially by the Weimar government, the Freikorps direct their aggression primarily towards Communist sympathisers and Spartacist supporters.
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.