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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.
Schwitters was a member of the 'ring neue werbegestalter' in the 1920s in Germany. He created assemblages called 'merz' from bits of urban detritus and found objects. German artist.
Kurt Schwitters was a German painter associated with the Dada movement, who worked in several genres and media, including 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.
Summary of Kurt Schwitters. Directly affected by the depressed state of Germany following World War I, and the modernist ethos of the Dada movement, Kurt Schwitters began to collect garbage from the streets and incorporate it directly into his art work.
Jul 9, 2012 · Kurt Schwitters was an early 20th-century Dada artist whose elegant collages are a touchstone of MoMA’s collection. One of my favorites is Picture with Light Center from 1919, currently on view in the Museum’s fifth-floor galleries.
Apr 8, 2024 · Kurt Schwitters was a German Dada artist and poet, best known for his collages and relief constructions. Soon after World War I Schwitters was attracted by the emerging Dada school, a nihilistic literary and artistic movement dedicated to the destruction of existing aesthetic values.
Schwitters’s use of worn, often broken things reflects a society shattered by World War I. “Out of parsimony I took whatever I found . . . because we were now an impoverished country,” he wrote in 1919. “New things had to be made out of fragments.”
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