"Merz Pictures". Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 in Hanover, at Rumannstraße No.2, now No.8, the only child of Eduard Schwitters and his wife Henriette...
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expression and term Dada, and traces back to Kurt Schwitters. Merz was conceptualized by Kurt Schwitters, who planned a Dada section in Hanover. However...
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Billy Childish (section Kurt Schwitters)
work of Kurt Schwitters in particular. Childish has a Kurt Schwitters poem tattooed on his left buttock and made a short film on Schwitters's life, titled...
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Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters. Van Doesburg and Thijs Rinsema [nl] (a cordwainer and artist in Drachten) became friends of Schwitters, and together they...
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of principle works like the famous 'Anna Blume' of Kurt Schwitters." Later in the year Schwitters would publish the poem in an artist's book called Anna...
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composer Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), German painter Kurt Sinette (born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago boxer Kurt Spenrath (born 1976), Canadian filmmaker Kurt Stettler...
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collage is a type that emerged somewhat later than paper collage. Kurt Schwitters began experimenting with wood collages in the 1920s after already having...
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Painter" Chappell, p. 146 "Schwitters in Britain (Exhibition guide)". Tate Britain. Retrieved 17 August 2016. Schwitters, Kurt. "Postcard featuring an image...
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Raoul Hausmann (section Friendship with Schwitters)
with Kurt Schwitters deepened, and Hausmann started to take steps toward International Modernism. In September 1921, Hausmann, Höch, Schwitters and his...
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Kurt Tucholsky (German: [kʊʁt tu.ˈxɔls.ki] ; 9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the...
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soundtrack of the video game VVVVVV. Pppppp, a book of selected works by Kurt Schwitters, translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. pppppp, a rarely...
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experimentation by Kurt Schwitters in his typeface Architype Schwitters. In the mid-1920s, Van Doesburg worked together with Schwitters and the artist Kate...
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Willi Baumeister, Kurt Schwitters and others. Ziegler also confiscated and exhibited works of foreign...
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name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found...
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District-based Merzbarn that the German artist Kurt Schwitters had used as a studio. Hunter set up the 'Kurt Schwitters in England' working party in 2000 to raise...
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work leading up to pop art are: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Kurt Schwitters. Although both British and American pop art began during the 1950s...
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well as abstractionists as varied as Kandinsky, Anton Pevsner and Kurt Schwitters. Criticized by Theo van Doesburg to be too indefinite a collection...
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Architype Schwitters is a geometric sans-serif unicase typeface based upon a 1927 phonetic alphabet designed by Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948). The digital...
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Wieland Herzfelde, as well as other Dadaist and Futurist artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, George Grosz and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the track...
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Expressionism and, taking a lead from the practice of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, denied traditional concepts of aesthetics. Interest in Dada followed...
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irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art. Kurt Schwitters shows a similar sensibility in his "merz" works. He constructed parts...
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February 25, 1982) Rudolf Schlichter (December 6, 1890 – May 3, 1955) Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 – January 8, 1948) Walter Serner (January 15, 1889 –...
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the shoulders of a few ruffians, Army officers and industrialists." Kurt Schwitters incorporated a newspaper advertisement for the film into his 1944 collage...
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gadji beri bimba glandridi lauli lonni cadori..." (Albright, 2004) Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate (1922–32, "Primal Sonata") is a particularly well known early...
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John Ferren, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Kurt Schwitters. She also greatly admired the work of John Tunnard (1900–1971) and...
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could be three years old". Schwitters' influence is also shown on the song "Kurt's Rejoinder", on which samples of Schwitters' poem "Ursonate" can be heard...
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seminar that explored themes of Dadaism and Gesamtkunstwerk, especially Kurt Schwitter's legendary Merzbau. They cite Richard Huelsenbeck in his German Dada...
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indicated by either its anonymous wear and tear (as in collages of Kurt Schwitters) or by its recognizability as a consumer icon (as in the sculptures...
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thugs, who ran off after he recited The Ursonate, a sound poem by Kurt Schwitters. All tracks are written by Chumbawamba except where noted Chumbawamba:...
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becoming interested in the Dada movement after a collaboration with Kurt Schwitters in the late 1920s which led him to incorporate more varied materials...
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