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Biography and selected images.
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Kurt Schwitters  Schwitters images and biography The Artchive needs EVERYONE to help!If you enjoy this site, please click here to find out how YOU can help to keep it online 1887-1948) See also: Dada/Surrealism; CollageGallery.com; Schwitters at The Ambleside Museum and Armitt...
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html

Online exhibition of relief collage and assemblage works by Schwitters and other dadaists.
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Kurt Schwitters, 1887/1949  Schwitters poemtranslated into English by the artist. Thirty years of the artist's collage arranged chronologically to alow full appreciation of his development in the medium. Use browser's BACK button to return to previous page. To return to Home Page, click...
http://www.collagegallery.com/schwitters_retro.htm

Brief biography, the poem (in German) "An Anna Blume" and an essay on, and excerpts from, his "Ursonate".
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Kurt Schwitters  It was there that he started his own specific flavor of DaDaism, which he called Merz allegedly from the name ComMERZ Bank From 1923-1932 he published a magazine called Merz in which he published his poems and art. In 1926,...
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/schwitters.html

Includes a short biography of the artist and five of his works.
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Cut And Paste: Kurt Schwitters  Schwitters was certainly the odd man out of German Dada. He lived, not in Berlin like the others, but in Hanover where he created a self-enclosed world from his many varied artistic outpourings. At a fairly early stage he was...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dav...lmer/cutandpaste/schwitters.html

Offers a brief biography, gallery of works, and suggested readings.
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Guggenheim Collection Artist Schwitters Biography  After serving as a draftsman in the military in 1917, Schwitters experimented with Cubist and Expressionist styles. In 1918, he made his first collages and in 1919 invented the term 8220;Merz 8221; which he was to apply to all his...
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_144.html

Presents the Schwitters Archives in the Stadtbibliothek which contains numerous personal documents, his correspondence, and writing.
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12Schwitters-intro  The archives were put together by the artist's son, Ernst Schwitters, and are the source of the Ňuvre list being drawn up in the Sprengel Museum Hannover. The Sprengel Museum Hannover is always very pleased to receive information about privately...
http://www.sprengel-museum.de/v1...hwarchiv/12schwitters-intro.html