Kurt Schwitters

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was a painter, sculptor, designer and writer and worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Between 1923-32, Schwitters edited the magazine Merz.

Works

Publications

(in German unless noted)

• Anna Blume, Dichtungen, Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1919.
• Memoiren Anna Blumes in Bleie: eine leichtfassliche Methode zur Erlernung des Wahnsinns für Jederman, Freiburg: Walter Heinrich, 1922.
• Die Blume Anna, die neue Anna Blume. Eine Gedichtsammlung aus den Jahren 1918-1922, Berlin: Der Sturm, [1922].
• editor, Merz, 21 numbers, Hannover, 1923-32.
• Auguste Bolte (ein Lebertran), 1923.
  • Augusta Pia: um xarope de fígado de bacalhau, trans. Judite Berkemeier, Lisbon: Fenda, 1989. (Portuguese)
• Die Scheuche: Märchen, with Käte Steinitz and Theo van Doesburg, Hannover: Apossverlag, 1925, 12 pp.
  • "The Scarecrow", trans. Jack Zipes, 2009. [1] (English)
• “Eile ist des Witzes Weile”: eine Auswahl aus den Texten, eds. Christina Weiss and Karl Riha, Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1987, 160 pp.

Literature

• Megan R. Luke, Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014, PDF. [2] (English)

See also

• Merz

Links

• http://www.kurtschwitterstoday.org
• Schwitters' biography and works at 2006 NGA exhibition
• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html
• http://www.kurtschwitterstoday.org/research.html