Schwitters, Kurt (k
rt shvĭt`ərs), 1887–1948, German artist. Influenced by Kandinsky, by Picasso's reliefs, and by Dada Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian
..... Click the link for more information. constructions, he invented Merz [trash] constructions—arrangements of diverse materials and objects. Schwitters created gigantic architectural structures out of rubbish. His collages collage [Fr.,=pasting], technique in art consisting of cutting and pasting natural or manufactured materials to a painted or unpainted surface—hence, a work of art in this medium.
..... Click the link for more information. are among the outstanding creations in this medium.
rt shvĭt`ərs), 1887–1948, German artist. Influenced by Kandinsky, by Picasso's reliefs, and by Dada Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian..... Click the link for more information. constructions, he invented Merz [trash] constructions—arrangements of diverse materials and objects. Schwitters created gigantic architectural structures out of rubbish. His collages collage [Fr.,=pasting], technique in art consisting of cutting and pasting natural or manufactured materials to a painted or unpainted surface—hence, a work of art in this medium.
..... Click the link for more information. are among the outstanding creations in this medium.
Schwitters, Kurt
(born June 20, 1887, Hannover, Ger.—died Jan. 8, 1948, Little Langdale, Westmorland, Eng.) German Dada artist and poet. Associated with the Berlin Dadaists from 1918, he moved back to Hannover in 1924. He assembled collages and other constructions from everyday objects (train tickets, wooden spools, newspapers, postage stamps); his poems were composites of newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and other printed ephemera. He referred to all his artistic activities—and later to all his daily activities and even to himself—as Merz, the syllable left when he snipped letters from Kommerzbank (“Commercial Bank”). When the Nazis declared his art “degenerate” in 1937, he moved to Norway and later to England.
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