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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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Kurt Schwitters Opened by Customs
1937–8
Kurt Schwitters Picture of Spatial Growths - Picture with Two Small Dogs
1920–39
Kurt Schwitters The Proposal
1942
Kurt Schwitters (Relief in Relief)
c.1942–5
Kurt Schwitters Aphorism
1923
Kurt Schwitters Magic
c.1936–40
Kurt Schwitters Red Wire Sculpture
1944
Kurt Schwitters The Autumn Crocus
1926–8, reconstructed 1958
Artist as subject
John Christie Homage to Ursonate
1981
Unknown person(s) News article about Kurt Schwitters’ work
date not known
Philip Granville, Lord’s Gallery, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Philip Granville at Lord’s Gallery to Edith Thomas about their first meeting and Kurt Schwitters
29 August 1958
Unknown person(s) Note regarding payment for the sale of Schwitters’ collage work
30 September 1955
Kurt Schwitters Photocopy of a portrait of a man signed by Schwitters
date not known
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) 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
Unknown person(s) Letter from Sidney Janis to Edith Thomas, about a shipment of Schwitters’ work entitled, ‘PALL MALL DEPOSIT’ written on an envelope
date not known
Film and audio
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Schwitters Interned
Discover Kurt Schwitters' response to being in a WW2 British Internment Camp
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Schwitters in context: The British years – Part 2
This half-day conference brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss Kurt Schwitters’s British period and its broader ...
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Curator's talk: Schwitters in Britain
Curator of the exhibition Schwitters in Britain Emma Chambers will give an exclusive insight into the creation of the show ...
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Contemporary Responses to Kurt Schwitters
Fictional Grandparents and an office designed by Frank Lloyd-Wright feature in two contemporary artistic responses to Kurt Schwitters
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Art Term
Assemblage
Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or ...
Art Term
Dada
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and ...
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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The lonely radical: Marlow Moss at Tate St Ives
At one stage the British artist Marlow Moss was at the heart of the European avant-garde, living in Paris where ...
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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 ...
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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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Tate Etc. issue 27: Spring 2013
Tate Etc. issue 27, Spring 2013; online edition of Tate's magazine
Blog
Archives & Access project: Animating the Archives – a new video series
Transforming Tate Britain, Archives & Access
Blog
Schwitters in Britain: Tom Ravenscroft's playlist
We asked Radio 6 music DJ Tom Ravenscroft to make a playlist to celebrate the final week of Schwitters in ...
Blog
Schwitters in Britain: The Merzbarn Wall in Newcastle
Rob Airey, Keeper of Art at the Hatton Gallery shares his experience of looking after Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn wall ...
Sketches, letters, etc.
Ernst Schwitters Photograph of Kurt Schwitters painting near Djupvassjytta, Norway
1933
Unknown person(s) News article about Kurt Schwitters’ work
date not known
Philip Granville, Lord’s Gallery, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Philip Granville at Lord’s Gallery to Edith Thomas about their first meeting and Kurt Schwitters
29 August 1958
Unknown person(s) Printed image of ‘Das Herz geht zur Mühle’ by Kurt Schwitters
[1982]
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