Schwitters, Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius
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Schwitters, Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius (1887–1948). German artist. In 1917 he made collages from detritus collected from dumps and streets which he called
Merz (Cast-Off). He then created
Merzbau (Cast-Off Building) which virtually took over his entire dwelling in Hanover (1923–32—destroyed). The
Merzbau was wholly unfunctional, and was really an essay in which
Expressionism, De
Stijl, and
Constructivism merged: it, in turn (from pictures and descriptions), seems to have exercised a powerful influence on the work of several late-C20 and early-C21 architects. He built a
Merz mural in Ambleside, English Lake District (1947–8), later moved to King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bibliography
BaLa (1987);
Chilvers, Osborne, & Farr (eds.) (1988);
Gumard (2000);
Schmalenbach (1970);
Steinitz (1968)
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Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 in Hanover...s most famous modern artist, Kurt Schwitters, had to spend the last years...Sprengel Museum in Hanover's Kurt Schwitters Platz is in process of producing...
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El triunfo de la creatividad.(Kurt Schwitters; Fundación Juan March; Madrid, España)(TT: The triumph of creativity.)(TA: Kurt Schwitters; Juan March Foundation; Madrid, Spain)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 5/10/1999; 700+ words
; Kurt Schwitters en la Fundacin Juan March de Madrid La obra y la figura de Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) es, a pesar de sus caractersticas vanguardistas y...
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Kurt Schwitters.(German artist)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...is by the German artist, Kurt Schwitters, born in Hanover in 1887 and...shock tactics in art and life. Schwitters made lively connections across...middle-class audiences. "Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study" by...
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The Arts: The rubbish man of Windermere Shunned and poverty- stricken, the possessor of only one pair of socks, Kurt Schwitters really suffered for his art. Martin Gayford examines his amazing life as his epic, final work goes on show
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/18/1999; ; 700+ words
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Barn.(Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn installation)
Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 5/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...Hamilton announced plans to save Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn site on the Cylinders...fundraising appeal charity auction. A Kurt Schwitters In England Merzbarn Trust is...of a Merzbarn study centre, a Kurt Schwitters in England gallery/museum and...
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Abstraktion als stilbildendes Prinzip in der Lyrik von Hans Arp und Kurt Schwitters.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the work that has been done on Arp, Schwitters and Dada in France, Britain and North...of the intricate relationship between Schwitters and Dada by a piece which appeared in the Kurt Schwitters-Almanach in 1982; her sense of the...
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The Arts: Ode to the trash man When, in 1919, Kurt Schwitters turned rubbish into art, he little knew it would catch on. Michael Glover looks forward to the V&A's celebration of the Dadaist
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Dadaist, collagiste...Pat Thomas on piano. To remind us of Schwitters' admiring presence among us, slides of some of the V&A's own collection of Schwitters' art works will be projected on to...
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Kurt Schwitters. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 8/3/1985; ; 700+ words
; Kurt Schwitters Whoever has visited any representative collection of modern European...1920s, will have encountered --and remembered--two or three of Kurt Schwitters's unmistakable collages, or Merzbilder, as he called them. They...
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Kurt Merz Schwitters.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Webster explains, however, Schwitters differed from them in at least...remark by Kate Steinitz that Kurt's erotic misery 'perhaps...consider his marriage to Helma Schwitters, nee Fischer, 'a woman of...for his own failings. But Kurt was living through a war in...
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Kurt Schwitters at Ubu.(New York)(exhbition of the artist's work)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...quality display of over 60 of Kurt Schwitters's collages, paintings and...ruins of post-war Germany, Schwitters combed the streets and parks...Throughout his earlier work we see Schwitters's indebtedness to the contemporary...
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Kurt Schwitters
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kurt Schwitters The painter, collagist, typographer, and poet Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was the creator of...discarded objects of everyday use. Kurt Schwitters was born in 1887 in Hannover, Germany...
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Schwitters, Kurt
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Schwitters, Kurt (1887–1948). German...to collages made from refuse, but Schwitters came to use it of all his activities...painter Georg Muche was nonplussed when Schwitters asked him to merz with him, and he...
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Schwitters, Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Schwitters, Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius (1887–1948). German artist. In 1917 he made collages from detritus collected from dumps...
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Merzbow
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...college, Akita also encountered the work of artist Kurt Schwitters, who would later provide Akita ’ s noise...formed Merzbow. He took the name from a collage by Kurt Schwitters entitled “ Merzbau, “ which...
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Dada
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...the works on show. In Hanover Kurt Schwitters was the only important Dada exponent...1921, in which Hausmann and Schwitters participated, and an international...Weimar in 1922, attended by Arp, Schwitters, and others, Tzara delivered...
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