Johann Dieter Wassmann

Who was Johann Dieter Wassmann?

Johann Dieter Wassmann is a fictitious artist and sewerage engineer, purportedly from Leipzig, Germany. He is the creation of the American-born artist and writer Jeff Wassmann. As a result of the widespread dissemination of his work, he is sometimes mistakenly credited as a major figure among late-19th-century artists. Despite this caveat, he is often identified as an early purveyor of the Dada and Surrealist movements and has become closely associated with several artists of the first half of the 20th-century, most particularly Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Atget and Joseph Cornell.