1. Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century s greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html

Kurt Schwitters images and biography Buying posters via this link helps Artchive - click here! The Artchive needs EVERYONE to help! If you enjoy this site, please click here to find out how YOU can help to keep it online. See also: Dada/Surrealism CollageGallery.com Schwitters at The Ambleside Museum and Armitt Library VIEW LIST OF KURT SCHWITTERS IMAGES ON THE WEB (The following biography was written by Gwendolen Freundel Webster especially for the Artchive.) Kurt Schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century's greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so Schwitters' life is characterized by paradox and enigma. Born in Hanover, the only child of affluent parents, he was a loner in his youth, plagued by epileptic attacks, introverted and insecure, and as a student at the Dresden Academy of Art he proved as apt as he was unimaginative. Although his contact with Expressionist artists in Hannover in 1916 gave him more confidence to develop his own style, even his most impressive works (such as Mountain Graveyard ) were little more than imitations of his contemporaries.

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Kurt Schwitters From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Kurt Schwitters June 20 January 8 ) was a German painter who was born in Hannover Germany Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism Constructivism Surrealism poetry ... typography and what came to be known as installation art Contents Biography and art Marlborough Gallery Controversy Archival and Forgeries Legacy ... edit Biography and art Though not a direct participant in Dada activities, he employed Dada ideas in his work, such as his Merz works — art pieces built up of found objects; some were very small, some took the form of large constructions, or what would later in the 20th century be called installations . The Sprengel Museum in Hanover has a reconstruction of the best known of these installations, called Merzbau , which was a redesign of at least four rooms in Schwitters's house in Hannover. (These were not in his apartment, but on the ground floor, in the attic and possibly in the basement.) The original Merzbau was destroyed in an air raid during World War II . According to Schwitters

3. Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887, the son of a well off boutique owner. His families borgeois standing was strenthened by his fathers miserly http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/dada/page14.html

Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948) "The ambition was Expressionist, the means Constructivist, the results - largly Dadaist" Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887, the son of a well off boutique owner. His families borgeois standing was strenthened by his fathers miserly conduct - a trait inherited by Kurt who proudly never spent a penny on his wife's clothes. From 1909-14 he attended the Dresden art school where he began his artistic career painting slavishly naturalistic pictures. His academic work was conventional and unadventurous although he did write a dissertation on abstract art (now lost). In later life Schwitters put his artistic development into handy, discreet, pocket sized catagories:- 1909-14 - Academic Painting 1914-17 - Impressionism 1917 - Expressionism 1917-18 - Abstraction 1918 -48 - Merz Kurt Schwitters was the odd man out of Dada - not officially a dadaist but still vital to the dada movement. In 1918 he made visits to Berlin where he became friends with Arp and Hausmann. Then one night in a cafe he approached Tristan Tzara and Hans Richter: "My name is Kurt Schwitters...I am a painter and I nail my pictures together...I should like to join the Club Dada"

4. Kurt Schwitters - Wikipedia Translate this page Als Lyriker und Schriftsteller hinterließ Kurt Schwitters ebenfalls ein umfangreiches Werk. In seiner Jugend von Expressionisten wie August Stramm http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Kurt Schwitters 20. Juni in Hannover 8. Januar in Ambleside ) war ein deutscher Maler , Dichter, Werbegrafiker und Universalk¼nstler der „ Merzkunst Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werke Kunst Literatur ... Bearbeiten Leben Kurt Schwitters, Kleine Dada Soir©e Grab von Schwitters in Hannover Nach konventionellen impressionistischen und expressionistischen Anf¤ngen als Sch¼ler Carl Bantzers 1909 in der Willingshauser Malerkolonie wurde Schwitters 1919 durch seine „Merz-Bilder“ ber¼hmt. Mit Merz bezeichnete er seine Technik, aus Zeitungsausschnitten, Reklame und Abfall Collagen zu erstellen. Als Gegenprojekt zu dem eher destruktiven Dadaismus sollten diese ab 1919 entstandenen Bilder und Skulpturen f¼r einen Wiederaufbau stehen, was Schwitters in die N¤he des Konstruktivismus r¼ckt. Der Begriff Merz entstand angeblich bei einer Collage aus „ Commerzbank “ und hat Assoziationen zu „Kommerz“, „ausmerzen“, „Scherz“, „Nerz“, „Herz“ und dem Monat M¤rz, der f¼r den Fr¼hlingsanfang steht. Der Merzbau (eine grottenartige Collage-Skulptur mit Erinnerungsst¼cken), an dem Schwitters etwa zwanzig Jahre in seinem Haus in Hannover arbeitete (haupts¤chlich in der Wohnung der Eltern), wurde ebenso wie viele seiner Arbeiten bei einem Bombenangriff zerst¶rt. Eine Rekonstruktion ist im

5. Kurt Schwitters --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Kurt Schwitters German Dada artist and poet, best known for his collages and relief constructions. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066278/Kurt-Schwitters

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6. Schwitters Kurt Schwitters. Born 20 July 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Died 8 January 1948 in Ambleside, England. Artist and writer associated with the Dada movement in http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/schwitte.html

Kurt Schwitters Born 20 July 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Died 8 January 1948 in Ambleside, England. Artist and writer associated with the Dada movement in Hanover. The International Dada Archive has extensive holdings of works by and about Schwitters. The Archive has microfilmed large portions of the Kurt-Schwitters-Archive at the Stadtbibliothek Hannover. BOOKS FROM THE DADA ARCHIVE Anna Blume: Dichtungen Memoiren Anna Blumes in Bleie PERIODICALS FROM THE DADA ARCHIVE Merz WORKS IN DADA ERA PUBLICATIONS FROM THE DADA ARCHIVE Click here for links to articles, poems, etc BOOKS ON SCHWITTERS (Spengemann) IMAGES Composition with Head in Left Profile 1921. Print. University of Michigan Museum of Art. SILS Art Image Browser. OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES Sprengel Museum Hannover - The museum's official website, including information on the Schwitters Archive and the museum's extensive holdings of works by Schwitters. The German Version of the website includes some additional information. Click here to return to the list of individual Dadaists.

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8. Kurt Schwitters - Wikipédia Translate this page Kurt Schwitters est un peintre et poète allemand, né à Hanovre en 1887 et mort en 1948. Il incarne l esprit individualiste et anarchiste du mouvement Dada, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters Un article de Wikip©dia, l'encyclop©die libre. Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Petite soir©e Dada Kurt Schwitters est un peintre et po¨te allemand , n©   Hanovre en et mort en . Il incarne l'esprit individualiste et anarchiste du mouvement Dada Merz . Il a exerc© une influence importante sur les n©o-dada am©ricains et sur Robert Rauschenberg en particulier, qui lui a emprunt© l'id©e de ses combine-paintings Sommaire Biographie Principales œuvres Principales expositions Liens externes ... modifier Biographie Kurt Schwitters ©tudie la peinture et le dessin de   l'Acad©mie de Dresde puis   celle de Berlin et participe   la revue Der Sturm de Berlin. Il est d'abord l'auteur d'œuvres figuratives, avant de subir l'influence des mouvements d’avant-garde du d©but du XX e dans des œuvres au fusain ou   l'aquarelle. € partir de , il se d©tourne d©finitivement de la peinture traditionnelle et ©labore, entre et , un vocabulaire propre bas© sur l'emploi de d©chets et de d©tritus de toutes sortes Grand ami de Raoul Hausmann et de Arp , refus© par le Club Dada de Berlin c'est   dire par Richard Huelsenbeck Merz Merzbild I . Le mouvement Merz cherche en effet   s'approprier les rebuts de la soci©t© industrielle et urbaine, faisant entrer la r©alit© quotidienne dans l'art, sans id©e de message politique ou d'esth©tique d'opposition, mais en avec la volont©,   partir de

9. Kurt Schwitters - Britannica Concise Among the most lyrical and inventive works in this magpie medium are the socalled Merz collages by Kurt Schwitters. Frottage was Max Ernst s method of http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9377995/Kurt-Schwitters

document.writeln(AAMB1); Schwitters, Kurt Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Kurt Schwitters born June 20, 1887, Hannover, Ger. died Jan. 8, 1948, Little Langdale, Westmorland, Eng. German Dada artist and poet. Merz , the syllable left when he snipped letters from Kommerzbank document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Kurt Schwitters" from the 32 Volume Schwitters, Kurt - German Dada artist and poet, best known for his collages and relief constructions. painting - Collage was the Dada and Synthetic Cubist technique of combining labels, tickets, newspaper cuttings, wallpaper scraps, and other "found" surfaces with painted textures simulating wood graining and marbling. Among the most lyrical and inventive works in this magpie medium are the so-called Merz collages by Kurt Schwitters. Frottage was Max Ernst's method of taking paper rubbings from surfaces, ... collage - (French: "pasting"), artistic technique of applying manufactured, printed, or "found" materials, such as bits of newspaper, fabric, wallpaper, etc., to a panel or canvas, frequently in combination with painting. In the 19th century, papiers colles were created from papers cut out and put together to form decorative compositions. In about 1912-13 Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque extended this ... Western sculpture - Between 1912 and 1914 there emerged an antisculptural movement, called Constructivism, that attacked the false seriousness and hollow moral ideals of academic art. The movement began with the relief fabrications of Vladimir Tatlin in 1913. The Constructivists and their sympathizers preferred industrially manufactured materials, such as plastics, glass, iron, and steel, to marble and bronze. Their ...

10. Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters. Kurt Schwitters Born 20Jun-1887 Birthplace Hanover, Germany Died 8-Jan-1948 Location of death Westmoreland, England http://www.nndb.com/people/295/000113953/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Kurt Schwitters Born: 20-Jun Birthplace: Hanover, Germany Died: 8-Jan Location of death: Westmoreland, England Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Ambleside, England Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Artist Nationality: Germany Executive summary: Collagist, Merz Among the artists condemned by the Nazis at the Degenerate Art exhibit in 1937. Father: (d. 1931) Wife: Helma Fischer (m. 5-Dec-1915, d. 1944, 2 children) Son: Ernst (b. 1918) Daughter: Esther (stepdaughter) Girlfriend: Edith Thomas University: Dresden Academy of Art Exiled to Norway (1937) Suicide Attempt Lysaker, Norway Heart Attack Stroke Allied Internment Camp Inmate Douglas Camp, Isle of Man (1940) Risk Factors: Epilepsy Depression Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

11. FLUXEUROPA: KURT SCHWITTERS Kurt Schwitters and Merzbau the Cathedral of Erotic Misery. http://www.fluxeuropa.com/kurt_schwitters.htm

FluxEuropa - dark music and more Please note that we have suspended active publication and no longer require items for review. The site is, however, being maintained as an archive and you can still post to the Gigboard and order Amazon products which helps to subsidise its continuation. Search this site: home books book reviews home ... features KURT SCHWITTERS' MERZBAU: THE CATHEDRAL OF EROTIC MISERY Elizabeth Burns Gamard Princeton Architectural Press ISBN 1-56898-136-8 Billed as the first in-depth study in English of the work of the German artist, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Elizabeth Burns Gamard's book focuses on the Hanover Merzbau, a unique installation in the history of modern art. Schwitters was an associate of the Dadaists Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara, but Merz was a one-man extension of Dada, not a group. Merz took its name from "an arbitrary and effectively meaningless word fragment culled from the German word Kommerzbank (Bank of Commerce) which appeared by chance in an early collage…" (pg 26). Schwitters' personal continuation of Dada, Merz embraced poetry and architecture, as well as collages and sculpture, and was advanced by Schwitters through his magazine, Merz Die Kathedrale des erotischen Elends (The Cathedral of Erotic Misery) or KdeE - later called the Merzbau - was a combination of collage, sculpture, and architecture. Begun in the corner of Schwitters' studio around 1923 (the date is problematical), it gradually expanded into the family living area.

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13. Kurt Schwitters - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Kurt Schwitters pintor alemán , nacido en Hannover el 20 de junio de 1887 y muerto en Inglaterra el 8 de enero de 1948. Excluido del movimiento Dadá Berlin, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Peque±a velada Dad¡ Kurt Schwitters pintor alem¡n , nacido en Hannover el 20 de junio de y muerto en Inglaterra el 8 de enero de . Excluido del movimiento Dad¡ Berlin, reacciona fundando Dad¡ Hannover . Este movimiento se fund³ sobre el apoliticismo ( en las ant­podas de las concepciones del grupo Dad¡ en Berl­n , que se caracterizaba por estar comprometido pol­ticamente), lo fant¡stico y el constructivismo. Sus principales pilares eran la revista Merz y el arte del mismo nombre. La actividad art­stica estaba fundada sobre el collage : sobre sus telas se encontraban boletos de ³mnibus, pedazos de afiches o de peri³dicos, lanas, botones, telas, etc. El nombre Merz alude a un fragmento de papel donde estaba escrito la palabra alemana Kommerz, de Kommerz Bank. editar Enlaces externos Algunos cuadros Este art­culo es un miniesbozo sobre pintores en el que falta informaci³n esencial. Ampli¡ndolo ayudar¡s a mejorar Wikipedia . Puedes apoyarte en las wikipedias en otras lenguas Obtenido de " http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

14. Kurt Schwitters - Wikipedia Translate this page Kurt Schwitters (Hannover, 20 juni 1887 - Kendal (Verenigd Koninkrijk), 8 januari 1948) was een Duits kunstenaar die beroemd werd met zijn collages. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters Uit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie Ga naar: navigatie zoeken Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters. Afkomstig uit Merz , nummer 20 (1927): p. 104. Volledige naam Bijnaam Geboren 10 juni Overleden 8 januari Geboorteland Duitsland Beroep(en) kunstschilder typograaf publicist dichter Jaren actief Stijl(en) impressionisme expressionisme abstracte kunst dada¯sme [ Offici«le website] Kurt Schwitters Hannover 20 juni Kendal Verenigd Koninkrijk ... 8 januari ) was een Duits kunstenaar die beroemd werd met zijn collages Hij was een zoon van Eduard Schwitters en Henriette Beckemeyer, die tot 1898 een dameskledingzaak aan de Theaterplatz in Hannover bezaten en daarna leefden van inkomsten uit onroerend goed. In 1894 ging Schwitters naar het Realgymnasium I in Hannover. Vanaf 1901 had hij last van epileptische aanvallen Hij volgde daarna een opleiding aan de kunstacademie in Dresden . Hij was vanaf 1907 actief als kunstschilder en maakte toen impressionistische schilderijen. Rond 1917 sluit hij zich aan bij de expressionisten . In 1919 maakte hij onder invloed van het uit Zwitserland overgewaaide dada¯sme een opmerkelijke collage, bestaande uit allerlei materiaal, zoals papier, karton, krantensknipsels, kippengaas en prikkeldraad. Op ©©n van die krantenknipsels waren de letters MERZ afkomstig van een advertentie van de KOMMERZ UND PRIVATBANK te lezen, waarmee zijn eerste

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16. Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany.Schwitters worked in several genres and media, http://www.squidoo.com/kurtschwitters

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17. Kurt Schwitters Online kurt schwitters German Dadaist Painter and Sculptor, 18871948 Guide to pictures of works by kurt schwitters in art museum sites and image archives http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/schwitters_kurt.html

Kurt Schwitters art links last verified November 16, 2007 Link to this page Report errors + broken links here More options Kurt Schwitters [German Dadaist Painter and Sculptor, 1887-1948] Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s. German artists sculptors Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service) Original works by Kurt Schwitters available for purchase at art galleries worldwide Museums and Public Art Galleries: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Merz 8 Composition with head in left profile Guggenheim Museum , New York City Museum of Modern Art , New York City 9 works by Kurt Schwitters online National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh 2 works online Norton Simon Museum , Pasadena, California Peggy Guggenheim Collection , Venice Maraak, Variation I (Merzbild) Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven, Connecticut Oval Construction Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven, Connecticut Merz 316. Ische Gelb Abbot Hall Art Gallery , Kendal, UK Flight Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College , Ohio Grey and Yellow , collage Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA , California Carnival Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney, Australia Out of the dark Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney, Australia Kleine DADA Soirée Cleveland Museum of Art , Ohio Harvard University Art Museums , Massachusetts NEW!

18. Cut And Paste: Kurt Schwitters Includes a short biography of the artist and five of his works. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/schwitters.html

Intro Victorian Dada John Heartfield ... Present Day Kurt Schwitters was certainly the odd man out of German Dada. He lived, not in Berlin like the others, but in Hanover where he created a self-enclosed world from his many varied artistic outpourings. At a fairly early stage he was seen by the more politically motivated Dadaists as too petit bourgeois for those revolutionary times, but Schwitters was always his own man and thrived in this relative isolation. As he was not an accepted Dadaist, he started to call himself and his artistic output "Merz" (from a cut-up fragment of newspaper that had originally read "Kommerz".) Whereas the raw material of most of the Dada montage of the times was photographic and relevant, Schwitters took his from the streets. The montages, collages and assemblages that he constructed from all this gathered refuse have an extraordinary integrity of vision, but they are certainly not in any way political, and it is easy to understand how Schwitters' comfortable artistic sensibility may have alienated the likes of Heartfield and Grosz.

19. Kurt-Schwitters - Sprengel Museum Hannover Translate this page www.kurt-schwitters.org/ - 1k - Cached - Similar pages kurt schwittersThe kurt schwitters Exhibition In Mexico City - Summer 2003. There are 34 images here from this show click on number to see them. http://www.kurt-schwitters.org/

20. Kurt Schwitters The reason why the art of kurt schwitters was pivotal to the development of art in the 20th Century was relatively simple. He took two dimensional collage http://fp.armitt.plus.com/kurt_schwitters.htm

Home How to find us Links Armitt Collection ... Fred Yates Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) ‘We keep right on playing until death comes for us,” Schwitters said. “I have so little time.” Kurt Schwitters at the Armitt Alien at Ambleside Merz Lives On Dr G A Johnston ... Newspaper "Collages " ] KS - An Appreciation by Russell Mills The reason why the art of Kurt Schwitters was pivotal to the development of art in the 20th Century was relatively simple. He took two dimensional collage and made it three dimensional and called the new art from Merz. Born in Hanover in 1887, he studied art at Dresden, but it was not until the Dada movement of 1916 that he finally liberated himself from conventional art. Schwitters took from Dada the freedom to use what materials he wanted to in his pictorial compositions. He used bits of rubbish, bits society throws away, and by using litter from the gutter he challenged our value systems. He was a man with extraordinary imagination, and although he drew on the Dada philosophy, he rejected its basic negativity. It could be said that after his death Merz inspired the Pop Art movement of the 1950s/1960s. One of the most important works of art he created was a sculpture which he called 'The Cathedral of Erotic Misery', or his Merzbau. The sculpture with its phallic column constantly evolved. It was unfinished because it was unfinishable; it was environmental and engulfing in scope, but its significance was that it marked the birth of installation or conceptual art that we see today. The Hanover Merzbau was destroyed by bombs in 1943.

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