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Kurt Schwitters Prints
About Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters was a German artist, born on 20 June 1887 in Hanover. He studied at the art academy in Dresden, and soon after the First World War he was drawn to Dada, the playful, anti-establishment art movement. Turned away by the Berlin Dadaists, he started his own version in Hanover. After the Nazis branded his art "degenerate", he fled to Norway in 1937, and when Germany invaded Norway in 1940 he escaped to Britain. He spent his last years in the English Lake District, where he died on 8 January 1948.
Schwitters called all his work Merz, a made-up word cut from Kommerz, German for commerce. His Merz pictures are collages built from scraps of printed paper and other found bits of city life. In his Hanover house he built the Merzbau, a room-sized sculpture he kept adding to for years, which was destroyed in the war. Kurt Schwitters also wrote sound poetry, notably the Ursonate (1922 to 1932).
Kurt Schwitters prints: reproductions of collages, drawings and paintings by the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters, made between 1918 and 1947. The collection includes Z31 Nächtliches Dorf (1918), The Springtime Picture Merzpicture 20 B (1920), Tea Rose (1924), Ohne Titel (Thirlmere) (1944) and Wieder horizontal (1947).
This selection concentrates on Schwitters's Merz collages, built from scraps of printed and coloured paper, from the Hanover years of the 1920s through his exile in Norway and England. It also includes a group of drawings from 1918 and many late collages made in England in 1944 to 1947, several of them dedicated to friends or titled with words cut from the printed scraps.
The small, textured collages suit home offices, studios, studies and hallways, and several hang well together in a grid. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
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