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Kurt Schwitters

[German Dadaist Painter and Sculptor, 1887-1948]

• Relationships: Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s.
• Browse all:  German artists  /  sculptors
 


 
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Original works by Kurt Schwitters available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Merz 8
Composition with head in left profile
, 1921

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
9 works by Kurt Schwitters online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Maraak, Variation I (Merzbild), 1930

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Oval Construction

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Merz 316. Ische Gelb

Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
Flight

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Grey and Yellow, collage

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Out of the dark, 1943

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Kleine DADA Soirée, 1923

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Merzbild 13A. Der Kleine Merzel, collage, 1919

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (in German)  
H.Bahlsens Keks-Fabrik AG, 1930

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Kurt Schwitters in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Revolving [Das Kreisen], 1919
Picture with Basket Ring [Bild mit Korbring], 1938

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Merz Construction

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid   NEW!

Seattle Art Museum

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
3 works

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Armitt, Cumbria, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
A total of 3 works online as you scroll down the page

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Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

PBase Photo Sharing
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Radiating World, 1920

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
Kurt Schwitters - Das Werk (in German)  

 
Other Web Sites:
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo

Collage Gallery
Kurt Schwitters, Master Collagist

Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
The Holy Night by Antoni Allegri, known as Correggio

The Modernist Journals Project

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Kurt Schwitters
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Time Magazine
"The Urban Poet as a Scavenger", 1985 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Out of the Midden Heap", 1971 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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