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Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
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culture · German artist (1887–1948) · painter · sculptor · graphic designer · writer · poet · designer · photographer · visual artist · graphic artist · musician · also Kurt Schwitters, Herman Edward Karl Julius Schwitters, Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius Schwitters, Curt Hermann Eduard Carl Julius Schwitters, Schwitters
Born 20 June 1887 · Died 8 January 1948 · Q155158
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And technically the principle of equal evaluation of the individual materials… A perambulator wheel, wire-netting, string and cotton wool are factors having equal rights with paint.
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“They treated it with tremendous respect. But then Pickfords moved in – they sent a team that specialised in moving electrical transformers across fields – and it was just this big lump to them. At one point they were winching it up and it wasn”
“And technically the principle of equal evaluation of the individual materials… A perambulator wheel, wire-netting, string and cotton wool are factors having equal rights with paint.”
“What I had learned at the Academy was of no use to me… Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments; and this is Merz.”
“In the war [at the machine factory at Wülfen] I discovered my love for the wheel and realized that machines are abstractions of the human spirit.”
“In the war, things were in terrible turmoil. What I had learned at the academy was of no use to me and the useful new ideas were still unready ... Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments; and this is Merz. It was like a revolution within me, not as it was, but as it should have been.”
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insider.si.edu: Kurt Schwitters; a portrait from life. With Collision, a science-fiction opera libretto in banalities, by Kurt Schwitters and Kate Trauman Steinitz, and other writings ...
Released album “URSONATE%24”.
Moviefone: Kurt Schwitters: The Schwitters Scandal - Where to Watch
The New Criterion: The sorrows of Kurt Schwitters
Artnet: At Galerie Gmurzynska, A Double Homage to Kurt Schwitters and Zaha Hadid
Forbes: Zaha Hadid's Design for "Kurt Schwitters: MERZ" at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich
SFGate: Kurt Schwitters' collages still challenge us today
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
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The Nation: Options Open: On Kurt Schwitters and Blinky Palermo
In response to Kurt Schwitters as part of the Senses exhibition which took place in Ålesund, Norway (2009) and at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2010)
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Released album “Dada > Antidada > Merz”.
insider.si.edu: Kurt Schwitters : MERZ--a total vision of the world / [editing, Annja Müller-Alsbach, Heinz Stahlhut]
Released album “What a Beauty: Die Ursonate und andere Lautgedichte”.
Released album “fmsbw: Werke für Sprechstimme”.
After confirming Ernst Schwitters's desire to have Lloyd continue to administer the estate in his will
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Moving control of the estate as a whole to Kurt's grandson, Bengt Schwitters
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Released album “Ursonate”.
The grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose
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Died 1948-01-08.
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And that the Marlborough Gallery had been vital in ensuring the artist's place in art history
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It was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid
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But abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951
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Steinitz sent Schwitters letters describing life in the emerging consumer society, and wrapped the letters in pages of comics to give a flavour of the new world, which she encouraged Schwitters to 'Merz'
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And examples of his work in German museums were confiscated and publicly ridiculed in 1935
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And Schwitters subsequently extended the Merzbau to other areas of the house until he fled to Norway in early 1937
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Although he would continue to develop the piece for at least the next ten years
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Ran an advertising agency named Merzwerbe, which held the accounts for Pelikan inks and Bahlsen biscuits, amongst others, and became the official typographer for Hanover town council between 1929 and 1934
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Theo van Doesburg organised a series of Dada performances in the Netherlands
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Huelsenbeck was enthusiastic about Schwitters's work and promised his assistance, while Schwitters reciprocated by finding an outlet for Huelsenbeck's Dada publications
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“and I nail my pictures together.”
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His art was to change dramatically as a direct consequence of Germany's economic, political, and military collapse at the end of the First World War
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Took part in his first exhibition, in Hanover
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Schwitters suffered his first epileptic seizure, a condition that would exempt him from military service in World War I until late in the war, when conscription was loosened
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And the family used the money to buy some properties in Hanover, which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitters' life in Germany
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The family moved to Waldstraße (later renamed to Waldhausenstraße), future site of the Merzbau
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Born 1887-06-20.
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In the war, things were in terrible turmoil. What I had learned at the academy was of no use to me and the useful new ideas were still unready ... Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments; and this is Merz. It was like a revolution within me, not as it was, but as it should have been.
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