Kurt Schwitters

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

(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.
• 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. [2]

See also

• Merz

Links

• http://www.kurtschwitterstoday.org
• http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5293
• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html
• http://www.kurtschwitterstoday.org/research.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters