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<a href="https://primaryfacts.com/9643/kurt-schwitters-facts/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-10-03T13:49:02+00:00"></time><time class="updated" datetime="2022-10-04T08:08:22+00:00"></time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://primaryfacts.com/author/james/">James</a></span></span> <span class="cat-links"><i class="fa fa-folder-open"></i> <a href="https://primaryfacts.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> </span> </div> <span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-118" class="ezoic-adpicker-ad"></span><span data-ez-ph-id="118"></span></header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Kurt Schwitters was a German artist. Although he produced works of poetry, painting, sculpture, and graphic design, he is best known for his works of collage.</p><span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-901" data-method="placement-service"></span><span data-ez-ph-id="901"></span><span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-129" data-inserter-version="2"></span><span data-ez-ph-id="129"></span> <p><strong>Disclaimer</strong>: This post includes Amazon product images that include affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, Primary Facts earns from qualifying purchases.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Facts About Kurt Schwitters</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Kurt Schwitters was born in 1887 in Hannover, Germany.</li><li>In 1901, as a teenager, he experienced his first epileptic fit.</li><li>He studied art at the Dresden Academy, and then he began a career as an artist, initially as a post-impressionist.</li><li>His work became more expressionist as World War I progressed.</li><li>Although Kurt Schwitters was conscripted into the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in 1917, he was exempted due to his epilepsy. During World War I, he worked as a draftsman in a factory.</li><li>The style of work he produced changed dramatically in the years following the end of World War I.</li><li>Kurt Schwitters produced his first abstract collages in 1919. He called these works <em>Merz</em> (after text appearing on one of the paper fragments).</li><li>In his collages, Kurt Schwitters included fragments of found objects, personal items (such as tickets, and items given to him by friends), and pieces of newspaper.</li></ul> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p><strong>I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints</strong>.</p><cite>Kurt Schwitters</cite></blockquote> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>From 1923 to 1937, he worked on an ambitious 3-D construction at his Hanover studio. It started out as a single column, but soon expanded to fill his enitr working and living space with a series of angular pillars, caves, and grottoes. He called this work <em>Merzbau</em>.</li><li>From 1937-1948, Kurt Schwitters and his son fled Germany for Norway to avoid being arrested by the Gestapo. his wife remained in Germany to manage their four properties.</li><li>When the Nazi’s invaded Norway in 1940, Kurt Schwitters moved to Leith in Scotland before being relocated to Hutchinson Camp in Douglas in the Isle of Man.</li><li>During his internement, Kurt Schwitters produced more than 200 works of art.</li><li>He was released from the internment camp in 1941, and he moved to London.</li><li>In London, he was in contact with the artists Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.</li><li>During this period of his career, Kurt Schwitters started to incorporate more natural elements into his work, including pebbles, and sea-worn pottery.</li><li>In 1944, Kurt Schwitters suffered a stroke, and he learned that his wife had died of cancer in Germany.</li></ul> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <center><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poisoned-Abstraction-Schwitters-between-Revolution/dp/0300257082?crid=2VFUP7VVFTPWA&keywords=kurt+schwitters&qid=1664801650&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0LjAyIiwicXNhIjoiMi45NyIsInFzcCI6IjIuNjEifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=kurt+schwitetrs%2Caps%2C1173&sr=8-1&linkCode=li3&tag=primary-21&linkId=3e6d3fd896be627050b469f5a54475ec&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" border="0" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0300257082&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=GB&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=primary-21&language=en_GB"/></a><img decoding="async" src="https://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=primary-21&language=en_GB&l=li3&o=2&a=0300257082" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"/></center> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <center><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myself-My-Aims-Writings-Criticism/dp/022612939X?crid=2VFUP7VVFTPWA&keywords=kurt+schwitters&qid=1664801709&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0LjAyIiwicXNhIjoiMi45NyIsInFzcCI6IjIuNjEifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=kurt+schwitetrs%2Caps%2C1173&sr=8-3&linkCode=li3&tag=primary-21&linkId=73af07728868f28de71ac091904b889c&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" border="0" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=022612939X&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=GB&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=primary-21&language=en_GB"/></a><img decoding="async" src="https://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=primary-21&language=en_GB&l=li3&o=2&a=022612939X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"/></center> </div> </div> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>He moved to the Lake District in 1947, and he died in 1948 on the day after he had received the news that he had been granted British citizenship. 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