• "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    European artists such as Braque, Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, and Kurt Schwitters alongside Americans Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Robert Mallary and Robert...
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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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    politician and engineer Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), politician, re-organiser of the SPD after World War II Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), artist Alexander...
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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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  • 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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    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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    collage works of Schwitters and Max Ernst, which he showed to his colleagues in Switzerland. Huelsenbeck nonetheless declined to Schwitters membership in...
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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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  • 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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