113. Kurt Schwitters, Djupvand 3, 1931

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TitleDjupvand 3

Creator nameSchwitters, Kurt

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1931

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on board

LocationSprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, on loan from the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsLandscape painting, GermanLakes--NorwayMountains in art

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4. Merz Away from Home: Schwitters’s Exilic Imagination

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Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile

In 1931, around the time he began to develop the Merzbau as an integrated environment and in the same year he first publicized the Cathedral of Erotic Misery in “Me and My Goals,” Schwitters completed his plywood assemblage...

Author

Graham Bader

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.163-193

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00317.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22636&redirecttoanchor=81286

Chapter subject tags:Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948Exile (Punishment)Collage, GermanNationalism

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