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Artist: Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948)
Nationality: German
Movement: Dadaism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
After studying at the Dresden Academy, Kurt Schwitters worked as a designer, architect, typographer, writer, and publisher while pursuing his painting. Initially curious about Cubism, Schwitters eventually developed more Dadaist style, probably because of the influence from artists such as Arp and Hausmann. He incorporated found objects and junk into his montage pieces in three-dimensional pieces that he called Merzbau, meaning “cast-off construction.” He ran the Dadaist magazine, Merz, named after this term from 1923 to 1932. With the rise of Nazism, Schwitters moved to Norway and then finally to England in 1940, where he died.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Arts Trust for Social and Environmental Change: Kurt Schwitters: Merzbarn Conference, England
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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Museum Tinguely: Kurt Schwitters. MERZ – a total vision of the world
In 1919 he invented his own artistic movement, Merz; the term is taken from the bank name "Kommerz- und Privatbank". From now on he grouped together all aspects of his very varied artistic activities – painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, dr...
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Off the Rectangle! cis an exhibition of the free-form collage of David Turner. The accompanying short esssay by that name provides a provocative challenge to collagists to reexamine the connection of collage to painting....
Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a renewed interest. Beginning with P...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Phillips Auctioneers: Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg to Auction Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art
Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg will auction the Diethelm Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art on Monday, November 5 at 11:00 am. Among the highlights of the collection are two rare beach scenes by Max Liebermann, which illustrate...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Avant Garde Graphics 1918-1934
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see posters, prints, book designs and political and commercial ephemera, together with original layouts and photomontages, produced by some of the most important artists working at that time. Bringing toget...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...
Haus der Kunst: Tune the World: Sound sculptures - Pictures - Drawings

Stephan von Huene was born in Los Angeles in 1932 as the son of Baltic-German emigrants. He studied free art and art history at the University of California Los Angeles and the Chouinard Art Institute, among other places. In 1971 began his long te...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Gaudi's Universe: One of the Central Exhibitions of the Year of Gaudi
Gaudí and art: this is the theme of an exhibition which presents a completely new, comprehensive angle on the work of this inspired architect. Like an exultant "maison d'artiste", Gaudí Universe takes us into the complex mental and aesthetic wo...
Stedelijk Museum: Mandarin Ducks: Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij
A distinctive feature of the Venice presentation of Mandarin Ducks was the spatial situation in which there was a relation between the light and architecture of the Rietveld Pavilion in the Giardini of the Biennale, and the set used in making the ...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Gary Hill: Selected Works 1976 - 2001
An American, living in Seattle, he began his artistic career as a sculptor. The Kunstmuseum now presents a representative survey of Hill’s video pieces. The early videos of the 1970s, which concentrate on formal experimentation, are included a...
Haus der Kunst: GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art
GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art presents works possessing those characteristics attributed to the concept of the grotesque in Meyers Konversationslexikon (an influential encyclopaedia) in 1895: "The result of a humour which - apparently without ...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: Hannelore Baron: Works from 1967 to 1987
It is her works fragility, both physical and spiritual-the sense of quiet, private anguish expressed through forlorn materials and ...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

Further Artwork and Information:

The Kurt Schwitters Page
Kurt-Schwitters - Sprengel Museum Hannover
Kurt Schwitters Online
Kurt Schwitters, 1887/1949
12Schwitters-intro
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Schwitters - Biography
KUWITTER
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Colin Morton: The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems
Cut And Paste: Kurt Schwitters

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