The link between war and artistic expression is multi-faceted. All warring nations constructed and destroyed the arts through war and introduced many people to them. Works of art made it possible to follow the fluctuations of the war between front line and home front: from communities in anguish to communities in mourning. Artists were not only mobilised in the passive sense of the term: initially the majority consented actively to the war, seeing it as just and cleansing both at home and on the front line. On every front artists, whether mobilised or enlisted volunteers, found a true source of inspiration in the spectacle of the war. In Zurich, the Dada movement emerged around the Cabaret Voltaire in1915. To some extent the Dadaists needed the war to be born, prosper and die, but they could not admit this and their private mobilisation was their commitment to demobilisation from the war.