Kurt Schwitters art links 

Original works by Kurt Schwitters available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works 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

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

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Hammer Museum, California
Merz 316, 1921

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
Alphabetically under "S"

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 (in Spanish)  

Seattle Art Museum

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
3 works

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 449

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
A total of 3 works online as you scroll down the page

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

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)  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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Radiating World, 1920

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo

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

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Kurt Schwitters  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

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

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

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

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation search inside Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery look inside Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonne: Volume I 1905-1922 look inside In the Beginning is MERZ look inside Kurt Schwitters: 'I is Style'