Walter Serner
Czech Republic (1889—1942)Born Walter Eduard Seligmann, Serner studied law in Vienna and moved to Switzerland in 1915 to escape the German authorities. He became involved in the Dada movement and participated in its activities in Zurich, Geneva and Paris. He founded the publication Sirius, contributed to Die Aktion and was associated with the Dada publication Der Zeltweg. In 1920, he published Letzte Lockerung. Manifest Dada, written two years earlier. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and spent time in Italy with Christian Schad. In the 1930s, he settled in Prague but was unable to escape Nazi persecution. He and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and subsequently transferred to Riga, where they were murdered.
