Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Born in 1887, à Hanover, Germany.
Died in 1948, à Kendal, United-Kingdom
Education
1908-1909
School of Arts and Crafts, Hanover, Germany
1909-1914
Dresden Academy, Germany
Died in 1948, à Kendal, United-Kingdom
Education
1908-1909
School of Arts and Crafts, Hanover, Germany
1909-1914
Dresden Academy, Germany
German painter, sculptor, typographer and writer. Studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Hanover 1908-1909 and at Dresden Academy 1909-1914. Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism 1917-1918. In 1918, he created his own form of Dada in Hanover called 'Merz', using rubbish materials such as labels, bus tickets and bits of broken wood in his collages and constructions. Friendship with Arp, Hausmann and van Doesburg. Published the first edition of Anna Blume (a collection of poems and prose pieces) in 1919 and the magazine Merz 1923-32. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, 1920. Began in 1923 to build fantastic Merz constructions in his house in Hanover (the first 'Merzbau'). Spent the summers in Norway from 1931 and emigrated in 1937 to Lysaker near Oslo. Fled to England in 1940, spent seventeen months in internment camps, then lived 1941-1945 in London. Moved in 1945 to Ambleside in the Lake District. In the last months of his life, he began a further Merz construction in an old barn at Langdale.
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
“The lines of life are various, like roads and the contours of the mountains…”, Wandhaff
September 10 - October 29, 2016
“The lines of life are various, like roads and the contours of the mountains…”, Wandhaff
September 10 - October 29, 2016
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.676