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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters

German, 1887–1948

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Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.

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Works in Collection

151 works
"Die Märchen vom Paradies" von Kurt Schwitters und Käte Steinitz

"Die Märchen vom Paradies" von Kurt Schwitters und Käte S...

Kurt Schwitters

1924

29/8

29/8

Kurt Schwitters

1929

6 Punktebilden die Vorzüge der Stopfbüchslosen Rheinhütte Säurepumpen, Weise Söhne, Halle/Saale

6 Punktebilden die Vorzüge der Stopfbüchslosen Rheinhütte...

Kurt Schwitters

c. 1927

Advertisement for Celle People’s Furniture, Metalwares Factories (Celler Volks-Möbel, Metallwarenfabriken)

Advertisement for Celle People’s Furniture, Metalwares Fa...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1929

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks),  Hermann Bahlsen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Herman...

Kurt Schwitters

1929

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks),  Hermann Bahlsen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Herman...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1929

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks),  Hermann Bahlsen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover

Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Herman...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1929

Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale

Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale

Kurt Schwitters

1926–1927

Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale

Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale

Kurt Schwitters

1925-27

Advertisement for Schwitters' Hannover studio

Advertisement for Schwitters' Hannover studio

Kurt Schwitters

c. 1926

Advertising brochure for subscriptions to the Opera House and Playhouse of the Hannover Municipal Theaters (Städtische Bühnen Hannover)

Advertising brochure for subscriptions to the Opera House...

Kurt Schwitters

1930

Advertising flyer for Banalities (Banalitäten) issue, Merz no. 4 (Text declares, "Merz sticks, glues, and cements everything, and Merz fights against extremes! [Merz klebt, leimt, kittet alles und Merz kämpft gegen Extremes!])

Advertising flyer for Banalities (Banalitäten) issue, Mer...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1923

Advertising flyer for General Merz Program (Allgemeines Merz Programm)

Advertising flyer for General Merz Program (Allgemeines M...

Kurt Schwitters

1923

Advertising flyer for subscriptions to the Opera House and Playhouse of the Hannover Municipal Theaters (Städtische Bühnen Hannover)

Advertising flyer for subscriptions to the Opera House an...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1930

Allgemeines Merz Programm

Allgemeines Merz Programm

Kurt Schwitters

1923

Anna Blume: Dichtungen (Die Silbergäule, vol. 39/40)

Anna Blume: Dichtungen (Die Silbergäule, vol. 39/40)

Kurt Schwitters

1919

Aposs

Aposs

Kurt Schwitters

1924-25

Bestellkarte Aposs Verlag

Bestellkarte Aposs Verlag

Kurt Schwitters

1925

Brochure for Celle People’s Furniture (Celler Volks-Möbel), Hannover

Brochure for Celle People’s Furniture (Celler Volks-Möbel...

Kurt Schwitters

c.1929

Brochure for Edler & Krische Hannover

Brochure for Edler & Krische Hannover

Kurt Schwitters

1927–1928

Brochure for The Inexpensive, Good Dwelling: Plans for Additional Housing (Die Billige, gute Wohnung: Grundrisse zum zusätzlichen Wohnungsbau)

Brochure for The Inexpensive, Good Dwelling: Plans for Ad...

Kurt Schwitters

1930

Brochure with map of the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung, Die Gebrauchswohnung)

Brochure with map of the exhibition Dammerstock Housing E...

Kurt Schwitters

1929

C 35 paper clouds

C 35 paper clouds

Kurt Schwitters

1946

Catalogue for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung)

Catalogue for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: ...

Kurt Schwitters

1929

Exhibitions

56 exhibitions

Nov 19, 1934 – Jan 20, 1935

Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

117 artists

Mar 02, 1936 – Apr 19, 1936

Cubism and Abstract Art

113 artists · 1 curator

Dec 07, 1936 – Jan 17, 1937

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

179 artists · 1 curator

Mar 25, 1942 – May 03, 1942

New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art

29 artists

Dec 16, 1942 – Feb 28, 1943

New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art

20 artists

Jun 20, 1945 – Feb 13, 1946

The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

174 artists

Jul 02, 1946 – Sep 22, 1946

Paintings from New York Private Collections

37 artists · 1 curator

Sep 21, 1948 – Dec 05, 1948

Collage

39 artists · 1 curator

May 10, 1949 – Jul 10, 1949

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

132 artists · 2 curators

Jan 31, 1950 – May 07, 1950

Recent Acquisitions

32 artists

Aug 29, 1950 – Oct 15, 1950

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

72 artists · 1 curator

Jun 23, 1953 – Oct 04, 1953

Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

100 artists · 2 curators

Oct 19, 1954 – Feb 06, 1955

XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

260 artists

Dec 07, 1954 – Feb 01, 1955

Modern Masterprints of Europe

72 artists · 1 curator

Oct 05, 1955 – Oct 24, 1955

Selections from the Art Lending Service

42 artists · 1 curator

Oct 02, 1957 – Dec 01, 1957

German Art of the 20th Century

42 artists · 2 curators

Apr 23, 1958 – May 18, 1958

50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

41 artists · 1 curator

Jan 27, 1960 – Mar 20, 1960

Art Lending Service Retrospective

54 artists · 1 curator

May 04, 1960 – Sep 18, 1960

Portraits from the Museum Collection

92 artists · 1 curator

Oct 04, 1961 – Nov 12, 1961

The Art of Assemblage

144 artists · 1 curator

May 27, 1964

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

169 artists

Nov 22, 1966 – Feb 06, 1967

Art in the Mirror

30 artists · 1 curator

Jan 17, 1968 – Mar 04, 1968

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

55 artists · 1 curator

Jan 25, 1968 – Mar 10, 1968

Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967

197 artists · 1 curator

Mar 27, 1968 – Jun 09, 1968

Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

94 artists · 1 curator

May 28, 1969 – Sep 01, 1969

Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

119 artists · 1 curator

Jun 04, 1970 – Sep 08, 1970

Photo Eye of the 20s

29 artists · 1 curator

May 11, 1971 – Oct 19, 1971

A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

58 artists · 1 curator

Jul 06, 1971 – Sep 15, 1971

Summer Show

52 artists · 1 curator

Jul 28, 1971 – Nov 01, 1971

Ways of Looking

132 artists · 1 curator

Jul 31, 1972 – Sep 10, 1972

Kurt Schwitters

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 18, 1972 – Jan 07, 1973

Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

41 artists · 2 curators

Mar 07, 1973 – Jun 04, 1973

Works on Paper

58 artists

Oct 12, 1973 – Feb 02, 1974

Published in Germany, 1923

17 artists · 2 curators

Mar 21, 1975 – Jun 15, 1975

In the Twenties

51 artists · 1 curator

Feb 09, 1976 – May 09, 1976

Cubism and Its Affinities

45 artists · 1 curator

Mar 26, 1976 – May 19, 1976

Posters from the Collection

49 artists · 1 curator

Aug 20, 1976 – Nov 14, 1976

Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

66 artists · 1 curator

Aug 05, 1977 – Oct 31, 1977

The Graphic Revolution: 1915–1935

31 artists · 1 curator

Sep 20, 1977 – Dec 04, 1977

Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

34 artists · 1 curator

Nov 14, 1979 – Jan 22, 1980

Art of the Twenties

167 artists · 1 curator

Mar 19, 1981 – Jun 02, 1981

Recent Acquisitions: Drawings

65 artists · 1 curator

Aug 20, 1981 – Oct 06, 1981

Words and Pictures

49 artists · 1 curator

Mar 01, 1982 – Mar 16, 1982

A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

59 artists · 1 curator

Oct 26, 1983 – Jan 03, 1984

The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

81 artists · 1 curator

May 17, 1984

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

99 artists · 2 curators

May 17, 1984

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

61 artists · 2 curators

May 26, 1985 – Oct 29, 1985

Drawing in Austria and Germany

41 artists · 1 curator

Jun 10, 1985 – Oct 01, 1985

Kurt Schwitters

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 02, 1985 – Jan 07, 1986

Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980

107 artists · 2 curators

Jan 24, 1987 – Jun 14, 1987

Drawings Acquisitions

65 artists · 1 curator

Oct 24, 1987 – Mar 01, 1988

European Drawing Between the Wars

59 artists · 1 curator

Nov 03, 1988 – Feb 28, 1989

Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

42 artists · 2 curators

Nov 17, 1988 – Mar 26, 1989

Abstractions

77 artists · 1 curator

Mar 16, 1989 – Jul 04, 1989

Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

39 artists · 1 curator

Apr 06, 1989 – Aug 08, 1989

Master Prints from the Collection

102 artists · 1 curator