Baargeld was the editor of the periodical Der Ventilator ("The Fan"), which was started by Max Ernest and Hans Arp in 1919, and he collaborated on many other Dadaist publications such as Bulletin D, Dada W/3 and others.
Posters reproducing JohannesBaargeld's photomontage, Venus and the Game of the Kings, 1920, appeared throughout the city of Munich announcing the exhibition and its dates (the same image also served as the cover of the catalogue).
Baargeld, we should not forget, created some of the most outlandish constructions produced by any artist anywhere in the world at the time, even though the majority of these works have been lost or were destroyed, and are known today only through description or photographic documentation.
At the celebrated Dada-Vorfruhling exhibition held in the spring of 1920 at the Brauhaus Winter in Cologne, Baargeld showed his infamous Fluidoskeptrik, an aquarium filled with water that was tinted red to resemble blood, upon which floated a hank of human hair and into which was placed an alarm clock.
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