Hans Richter
Richter's first contacts with modern art were in 1912 through the "Blaue Reiter" and in 1913 through the "Erster Deutsche Herbstsalon" gallery "Der Sturm", in Berlin. In 1914 he was influenced by cubism.

His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published as a special edition about him. In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zürich and joined the Dada movement.

Dada /ˈdɑːdɑː/ or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Many claim Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before in 1915.[1] To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge,

Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artist and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara's and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language. Another theory says that the name "Dada" came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse'.

Key figures in the movement included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georg Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, and Hans Richter, among others. The movement influenced later styles like the avant-garde and downtown music movements, and groups including surrealism, Nouveau réalisme, pop art and Fluxus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada



But lets get back to the cross with eight points


The Code of the Brotherhood

Its design is based on crosses used since the First Crusade
The Templars had one in Red

but lets get back to the number 8
Christ had 8 beatitudes

The eight points also symbolize the eight obligations or aspirations of the knights:[3]
to live in truth
to have faith
to repent one’s sins
to give proof of humility
to love justice
to be merciful
to be sincere and whole­hearted
to endure persecution


by 8
Observant
Tactful
Resourceful
Dexterous
Explicit
Discriminating
Persevering
Sympathetic

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That's interesting because when you think about it - to represent it visually in two dimensions it would look like the Knight's tour move of one across and three down or the rule of four.

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Very Interesting Rain excellent!

In chess we have FOUR KNIGHTS



there on a board of sixty four 8x8

So the riding Knights together on one horse....could reflect the two Knights on the chessboard working together on the same side
The exact number of open tours on an 8x8 chessboard is still unknown.

On an 8 × 8 board, there are exactly 26,534,728,821,064 directed closed tours

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ur.svg.png

The Knight's tour as solved by The Turk, a chess-playing machine hoax. This particular solution is closed (circular), and can be completed from any point on the board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour
if you look at the Knights Tour of the Turk parts of the cross is displayed

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