Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
Kurt Schwitters
8 January 1948 (aged 60)
Dancing, collage, artist's book, installation, sculpture, poetry
Das Undbild, 1919
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".
Schwitters, The Grave of Alves Bäsenstiel, 1919, drawing (narrator's name in his poem An Anna Blume)
Poster for Dada Matinée, Jan. 1923, printed poster, announcing Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg & his wife Nelly
Schwitters, Abstract Composition, 1923–25, oil-painting
Schwitters, untitled (Agfa-Filmpack), c. 1925, collage
Schwitters, untitled (Hamburg elevated train), 1929, collage on paper on board
Schwitters, untitled (Chessman), 1941, collage, oil, paper and wood on plywood
Schwitters, untitled, early 1940s, collage
Schwitters, Red wire sculpture, 1944, stone and metal
Schwitters, Mother and Egg, 1945–47, mixed media sculpture
Schwitters, Still life with wine bottle and fruit, c. 1948, oil on canvas
Posthumous reputation[edit]
Merzbarn[edit]
One entire wall of the Merzbarn was removed to the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle for safe keeping. The shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near Ambleside.[57][58] [59] In 2011 the barn, but not the artwork inside it, was reconstructed in the front courtyard of the Royal Academy in London as part of its exhibition Modern British Sculpture.[60]