In Tate Britain
In Tate Britain
Biography
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Kurt Schwitters Opened by Customs
1937–8 -
Kurt Schwitters Picture of Spatial Growths - Picture with Two Small Dogs
1920–39 -
Kurt Schwitters (Relief in Relief)
c.1942–5 -
Kurt Schwitters Aphorism
1923 -
Kurt Schwitters The Proposal
1942 -
Kurt Schwitters Magic
c.1936–40 -
Kurt Schwitters Red Wire Sculpture
1944 -
Kurt Schwitters Untitled (The Clown)
c.1945–7
Artist as subject
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John Christie Homage to Ursonate
1981 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letter from the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about Ernst Schwitters’ wishes for his father’s collages
24 February 1949 -
Collection owner: Kurt Schwitters Receipt and letters between Midland Bank, Geo. Gatey & Son and Edith Thomas
21–23 January 1948 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: Eve Schwitters Letter to Eve Schwitters from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art about Kurt Schwitters’ collage work held at the Museum
24 February 1949 -
Unknown person(s) News article about Kurt Schwitters’ work
date not known -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA) Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son with letter from Margaret to Eve Schwitters enclosed
6 October 1949 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letter to Geo. Gatey & Son solicitors from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art
25 February 1948 -
Margaret Miller, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Edith Thomas about Schwitters’ funeral expenses
28 January 1948 -
Unknown person(s) Note regarding payment for the sale of Schwitters’ collage work
30 September 1955
Film and audio
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Schwitters Interned
Discover Kurt Schwitters' response to being in a WW2 British Internment Camp
Features
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Tate Etc
Mexican encounters: Tate Acquisition I
Melanie Smith’s video Xilitla, which focuses on Edward James’s extraordinary gothic Mexican garden Las Pozas de Xilitla, was purchased …
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Tate Etc
Modernists don't die in Ambleside: Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain
Was this the same Kurt Schwitters, founder of Merz, collaborator with Dadaists, Cubists and Constructivists, who won first, second and …
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Behind The Scenes
Archives & Access project: Animating the Archives – a new video series
Transforming Tate Britain, Archives & Access -
Art Term
Assemblage
Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or …
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Art Term
Dada
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and …
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Art Term
Merz
Merz is a nonsense word invented by the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works …
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Tate Papers
Merzzeichnung: Typology and Typography
When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings). …
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Tate Papers
Les Immatériaux or How to Construct the History of Exhibitions
Landmark Exhibitions Issue -
Tate Papers
Tate Papers no.8: Autumn 2007
The Autumn 2007 issue of Tate Papers, edited with the assistance of Bryony Bery, is given over to the …
Sketches, letters, etc.
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Unknown person(s) Printed image of ‘Das Herz geht zur Mühle’ by Kurt Schwitters
[1982] -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letter from the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about Ernst Schwitters’ wishes for his father’s collages
24 February 1949
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