Kurt Schwitters Signed Rare Mixed Media Collage On Board.
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Kurt Schwitters signed rare original mixed media collage on board.Hand signed/Initialled by the artist.This is an extraordinary investment opportunity to acquire an exceptional and rare Schwitters Originals of a work of art.Amazing, collage worked on heavy card, the actual artwork measures approximately 30 x 24cm (11.8 x 9.4).This important work is initialed on the lower left hand, it is in excellent condition with age-related signs of wear. This rare collage would benefit from, approp...riately framed.It is an original work and no lithograph or any kind of print. It's certainly a great and captivating piece. Private collection UK.To sum up: a really great rare and important ORIGINAL COLLAGE.
The compositional skills of the artist are wonderfully illustrated in the subject himself; to pretend bizarre colours and depths, to make a beautiful and impressive composition.Private Collection UK. Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948 German painter, sculptor, typographer and writer. Born in Hannover. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hannover 1908-9 and at the Dresden Academy 1909-14.
Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism 1917-18. In 1918 created his own form of Dada in Hanover called "Merz", with garbage materials such as labels, bus tickets and broken pieces of wood in his collages and constructions.
Friendship with Arp, Hausmann and van Doesburg. Published the first issue of Anna Blume (a collection of poems and prose pieces) in 1919 and the magazine Merz 1923-32.
First solo exhibition in the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin, 1920. Began in 1923 to build fantastic Merz constructions in his house in Hannover (the first "Merzbau").
Spent the summer in Norway from 1931 and 1937 Lysaker emigrated to Oslo. Flea to England in 1940 spent seventeen months in internment camps, then lived in London in 1941-5.
Moved to Ambleside in the Lake District in 1945. In the last months of his life he started another Merz construction in an old barn in Langdale. Died in Kendal.
The compositional skills of the artist are wonderfully illustrated in the subject himself; to pretend bizarre colours and depths, to make a beautiful and impressive composition.Private Collection UK. Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948 German painter, sculptor, typographer and writer. Born in Hannover. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hannover 1908-9 and at the Dresden Academy 1909-14.
Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism 1917-18. In 1918 created his own form of Dada in Hanover called "Merz", with garbage materials such as labels, bus tickets and broken pieces of wood in his collages and constructions.
Friendship with Arp, Hausmann and van Doesburg. Published the first issue of Anna Blume (a collection of poems and prose pieces) in 1919 and the magazine Merz 1923-32.
First solo exhibition in the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin, 1920. Began in 1923 to build fantastic Merz constructions in his house in Hannover (the first "Merzbau").
Spent the summer in Norway from 1931 and 1937 Lysaker emigrated to Oslo. Flea to England in 1940 spent seventeen months in internment camps, then lived in London in 1941-5.
Moved to Ambleside in the Lake District in 1945. In the last months of his life he started another Merz construction in an old barn in Langdale. Died in Kendal.
