Kurt schwitters' merzbau
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Kurt Schwitters
20 June 1887
Curt Hermann Eduard Carl Julyus Schwitters is born to the shop owners Eduard and Henriette Schwitters (née Beckemeyer), in Rumannstrasse number 2 in Hanover.
1894
Starts school at the Modernes Realgymnasium I, Hanover.
1900
Travels with his father to the World Fair in Paris.
1901
Nervous disorder, first psychogenic non-epileptic seizure.
1905
Produces first pictures.
1908-1909
Studies at the School of Applied Art, Hanover. Taught by Richard Schlösser.
1909-1915
Studies at the Royal Saxon Academy of Art in Dresden on the recommendation of his teacher Richard Schlösser. Summer semester 1909 to summer semester 1911: attends Carl Bantzer’s painting class; from winter semester 1912-13 onwards member of master class of Gotthardt Kuehl; additional tuition from Emmanuel Hegenbarth (animal painting), Hermann Dittrich (anatomical and nude studies), and from literary historian Oskar Walzel. Granted leave from studies in summer semester 1912 and from winter semester 1914-15 onwards, removed from st
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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. The resulting collages were characterized by their especially harmonious, sentimental arrangements and their incorporation of printed media. He actively produced artistic journals, illustrated works, and advertisements, as well as founding his own Merz journal. He wrote poems and musical works that played with letters, lacing them together in unusual combinations, as he'd done in the collages, in the hope of encouraging his audience to find their own meanings. His multiple avant-garde efforts culminated in his large merzbau creations. These works, collaborations with other avant-garde artists, would start with one object to which others were added, causing the whole piece to change and evolve over time, growing to great proportions that forced the viewer to actually experience, rather than simply view, the art.
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Born in Hanover in 1887, deceased in England in 1948.
Kurt Schwitters is a german painter and poet. He embodied the individualist and anarchist spirit of Dada, of whom he was one of the principal group leaders in Hanover. Concurrent to this activity, Schwitters created a movement that he called "Merz".
Schwitters influenced greatly american neo-dadaists, especially Robert Rauschenberg, who used his ideas of the "combine-paintings" and his collages.
From 1920 to 1923, in his house in Hanover, Schwitters built a vast structure made of white plaster volumes, the Schwitters-Säule (column Schwitters), in which were placed, inside cavities, his works and his friends' works.
Between 1930 and 1945, Schwitters lived essentially in Norway. His works were removed from German Museums, but 4 were presented in the "Degenerate Art exhibition" in Munich. After the Norway invasion by Nazis, Schwitters moved to England in 1946, where he constructed a new projet, the Merzbarn (barn Merz).
Schwitters, during his whole life, operated and broadcasted the main ideas of a chance and wastes art.
Born in Hanover in 1887, deceased in England in 1948.
Kurt Schwitters is a german painter and poet. He embodied the individualist and anarchist spirit of Dada, of whom he was one of the principal group leaders in Hanover. Concurrent to this activity, Schwitters created a movement that he called "Merz".
Schwitters influenced greatly american neo-dadaists, especially Robert Rauschenberg, who used his ideas of the "combine-paintings" and his collages.
From 1920 to 1923, in his house in Hanover, Schwitters built a vast structure made of white plaster volumes, the Schwitters-Säule (column Schwitters), in which were placed, inside cavities, his works and his friends' works.
Between 1930 and 1945, Schwitters lived essentially in Norway. His works were removed from German Museums, but 4 were presented in the "Degenerate Art exhibition" in Munich. After the Norway invasion by Nazis, Schwitters moved to England in 1946, where he constructed a new projet, the Merzbarn (barn Merz).
Schwitters, during his whole life, operated and broadcasted the main ideas of a chance and wastes art.
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