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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters is a male german artist (1887-1948) with 180 artworks in our database

1887 - 1948

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There are 180 artworks by Kurt Schwitters created between 1918 and 1993 in our database

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Kurt Schwitters used 63 distinct media and materials for the 180 artworks, which represents a 35.0% diversity ratio

Medium	Artworks
Letterpress	84
Lithograph	13
Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)	7
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper with cardstock border	4
Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)	4
Printed papers on paper	3
Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)	3
Letterpress and lithograph	3
Letterpress with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)	2
Chalk on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, cloth, wood, metal, cork, oil, pencil, and ink on board	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and gouache on paper	1
Painted plaster	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted colored paper on paper with cardstock	1
Collage of pasted paper on corrugated cardboard	1
Printed paper and ink on paper	1
Plaster and stone	1
Cut-and-pasted printed paper and crayon on printed board	1
Oil paint, wood, paper, cardboard and china on board	1
Graphite and crayon on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted colored paper on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and fabric mounted on cardstock	1
Cut-and-pasted paper, colored paper, and printed paper on paper with artist's mat	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and crayon on paper	1
Wood, rattan ring, paper, iron, and steel nails on wood	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and button on paper	1
Wood, metal, cord, cardboard, wool, wire, leather, and oil on canvas	1
Illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, and cloth on paper with cardstock border	1
Black printer's ink on coated paper	1
Paper, printed paper, oil paint and graphite on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted printed paper, cloth, and pencil on paper	1
Book with lithographed cover	1
Cut-and-pasted colored paper and printed paper, oil, and pencil on paperboard	1
Gouache and printed papers on paper mounted onto board	1
Cut-and-pasted printed paper and pencil on paper on board	1
Painted concrete	1
Graphite on card	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers on paper on colored cardstock	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, cardstock, wood and pencil on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted colored paper and printed paper on printed paper with cardstock border	1
Oil paint on wood and plaster	1
LIthograph	1
Cut-and-pasted paper, printed paper, and painted paper on cardstock	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, and cardstock with pencil on colored paper with cardstock border	1
Portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)	1
Cut-and-pasted painted paperboard, cardstock, and wood on painted paperboard on paperboard	1
Lithograph with collage additions from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and cloth on cardstock	1
Ink on paper	1
Gravure	1
Pencil and watercolor on paper on board	1
Cut-and-pasted colored paper on cardstock	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper with pencil on paper with cardstock border	1
Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and ink on cardboard	1
Cut-and-pasted printed paper and ink on paper with cardstock border	1
Cut-and-pasted papers with cardstock border	1
CD	1
Printed paper on paper	1
Cut-and-pasted silver-gelatin prints on paper on cardstock	1
Metal, plaster and stone	1

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Explore 180 artworks by Kurt Schwitters

Title	Year	Medium
"Die Märchen vom Paradies" von Kurt Schwitters und Käte Steinitz	1924	Letterpress
(Relief in Relief)	1942	Oil paint on wood and plaster
29/32	1929	Cut-and-pasted silver-gelatin prints on paper on cardstock
29/8	1929	Cut-and-pasted colored paper on paper
6 Punktebilden die Vorzüge der Stopfbüchslosen Rheinhütte Säurepumpen, Weise Söhne, Halle/Saale	1927	Letterpress
Advertisement for Celle People’s Furniture, Metalwares Factories (Celler Volks-Möbel, Metallwarenfabriken)	1929	Letterpress
Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	LIthograph
Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Advertisement for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale	1925	Letterpress
Advertisement for Merz Werbezentrale	1926	Letterpress
Advertisement for Schwitters' Hannover studio	1926	Letterpress
Advertising brochure for subscriptions to the Opera House and Playhouse of the Hannover Municipal Theaters (Städtische Bühnen Hannover)	1930	Letterpress
Advertising flyer for Banalities (Banalitäten) issue, Merz no. 4 (Text declares, "Merz sticks, glues, and cements everything, and Merz fights against extremes! [Merz klebt, leimt, kittet alles und Merz kämpft gegen Extremes!])	1923	Letterpress
Advertising flyer for General Merz Program (Allgemeines Merz Programm)	1923	Letterpress
Advertising flyer for subscriptions to the Opera House and Playhouse of the Hannover Municipal Theaters (Städtische Bühnen Hannover)	1930	Letterpress
Allgemeines Merz Programm	1923	Letterpress
Anna Blume: Dichtungen (Die Silbergäule, vol. 39/40)	1919	Book with lithographed cover
Aphorism	1923	Gouache and printed papers on paper mounted onto board
Aposs	1924	Letterpress
Aposs Verlag, Hannover, Georgstr. 34, Mitteilung, Rechnung, Quittung	1924	Letterpress
Bestellkarte Aposs Verlag	1925	Letterpress
Brochure for Celle People’s Furniture (Celler Volks-Möbel), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Brochure for Edler & Krische Hannover	1927	Letterpress and lithograph
Brochure for The Inexpensive, Good Dwelling: Plans for Additional Housing (Die Billige, gute Wohnung: Grundrisse zum zusätzlichen Wohnungsbau)	1930	Letterpress
Brochure with map of the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung, Die Gebrauchswohnung)	1929	Gravure
C 35 paper clouds	1946	Collage of pasted paper on corrugated cardboard
Catalogue for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung)	1929	Letterpress
Catalogue for the exhibition Heinrich Zille at the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover	1931	Letterpress
City of Hannover letterhead (Letter to Fritz Wichert)	1933	Letterpress
City of Hannover letterhead (Letter to H. Brinkmann)	1933	Letterpress
City of Hannover letterhead (Letter to Lina Diekmann)	1934	Letterpress
City of Hannover school fees registration form	1930	Letterpress
City of Hannover stationery envelope	1933	Letterpress
City of Hannover stationery envelope (Addressed to Fritz Wichert)	1933	Letterpress
Cover for Der Sturm (The Storm) 10, no. 4	1919	Letterpress
Cover for Seconds Through the Brain: An Uncannily Fast-Rotating Novel (Sekunde Durch Hirn, Ein unheimlich schnell rotierender Roman) by Melchior Vischer, Die Silbergäule, vol. 59/61	1920	Lithograph
Cover for The Flower Anna: The New Anna Flower: A collection of poems from the years 1918–1922 (Die Blume Anna. Die neue Anna Blume: eine Gedichtsammlung aus den Jahren 1918–1922) by Kurt Merz Schwitters	1922	Letterpress
Cover from Merz 3	1923	Letterpress with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
D'un art l'autre: Poésure et Peintrie	1993	CD
Das Lose-Blatt-Buch, Edler & Krische Hannover, Geschäftsbücherfabrik	1927	Letterpress
Der Zinnoberschlager	1928	Letterpress
Die Abstrakten Hannover	1927	Letterpress
Die Abstrakten Hannover letterhead	1929	Letterpress
Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Die Märchen des 20. Jahrhunderts	1924	Letterpress
Die neue Gestaltung in der Typographie	1930
Die neue Gestaltung in der Typographie	1930	Letterpress
Die neue Gestaltung in der Typographie, Werbe-Gestaltung	1930	Letterpress
Drawing A2: Hansi	1918	Cut-and-pasted colored paper and printed paper on printed paper with cardstock border
Ein- und Mehrstufige Gliederpumpen	1927	Letterpress
Famiglia	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper on paper
Fitelberg	1927	Letterpress
Foto-Typographie	1929
Front cover from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph with collage additions from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Hahn Werbedruck	1929	Letterpress
Hahn Werbedruck advertisement	1930	Lithograph
Heimtype A.G. Celle letterhead	1930	Letterpress
Karlsruhe	1929	Cut-and-pasted printed paper and crayon on printed board
Kleine Dada Soirée	1922	Lithograph
Kleines Liniaturen-Musterbuch, Edler & Krische Hannover, Geschäftsbücherfabrik	1927	Letterpress
Koi	1932	Printed paper and ink on paper
Kurt Schwitters, Hannover, Waldhausstr. 5		Letterpress
Letter to Naum Gabo	1941	Ink on paper
Lofty	1945	Painted plaster
Magic	1936	Printed papers on paper
Measure	1922	Printed papers on paper
Mehrstufige Hochdruck-Krieselpumpen	1927	Letterpress
Merz 1926 17. Lissitzky	1926	Cut-and-pasted colored paper on cardstock
Merz 2	1923	Letterpress
Merz 2005. Constantinople	1924	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, cardstock, wood and pencil on paper
Merz 22	1920	Cut-and-pasted printed paper and ink on paper with cardstock border
Merz 2: Ich bin der Künstler von i	1923	Letterpress
Merz 3	1923	Portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Merz 370. Blue Spark	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored paper on paper with cardstock
Merz 39. Russian Picture	1920	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, and cardstock with pencil on colored paper with cardstock border
Merz 458	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper with cardstock border
Merz 460. Two Underdrawers	1921	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and fabric mounted on cardstock
Merz 88. Red Stroke	1920	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and crayon on paper
Merz Drawing	1924	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and button on paper
Merz Drawing 83. Drawing F	1920	Cut-and-pasted papers with cardstock border
Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture (Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild)	1921	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, cloth, wood, metal, cork, oil, pencil, and ink on board
Merz Werbe letterhead (Letter to Piet Zwart from Schwitters)	1927	Letterpress
Merz Werbezentrale stationery envelope	1924	Letterpress
Merz no. 11: Typographic Advertising: Pelikan issue (Typoreklame: Pelikan-Nummer)	1924	Letterpress
Merz no. 14/15: The Scarecrow (Die Scheuche)	1925	Letterpress
Merz no. 1: Holland Dada	1923	Letterpress
Merz no. 20: Catalogue the Great Merz Exhibition (Katalog der Grossen Merzausstellung)	1927	Letterpress
Merz no. 21: First Violet Issue (Erstes Veilchenheft)	1931	Letterpress
Merz no. 2: Number i (Nummer i)	1923	Letterpress
Merz no. 2: Number i (Nummer i)	1923	Letterpress
Merz no. 4: Banalities (Banalitäten)	1923	Letterpress
Merz no. 6: Imitators, watch step! (Imitatoren watch step!) (Alternate issue title on back cover, Arp no.1: Propaganda and Arp)	1923	Letterpress
Merz no. 7	1924	Letterpress
Merz no. 8/9: Nature (Nasci)	1924	Letterpress
Merz subscription card	1923	Letterpress
Merzmatinee	1923	Letterpress
Mz 26, 48. Berlin	1926	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and gouache on paper
Mz 379. Potsdamer	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper with cardstock border
Mz 442	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, and cloth on paper with cardstock border
Mz 448 Moscow (Mz 448 Moskau)	1922	Cut-and-pasted painted paperboard, cardstock, and wood on painted paperboard on paperboard
Mz 461. Goldmark.	1922	Cut-and-pasted paper, printed paper, and painted paper on cardstock
Mz 704. Bühlau	1923	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and cloth on cardstock
Mz. 252. Colored Squares	1921	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper with pencil on paper with cardstock border
N Watercolor 1. (The Heart Goes from Sugar to Coffee) (N Aquarell 1. (Das Herz geht vom Zucker zum Kaffee))	1919	Pencil and watercolor on paper on board
NWG (ring neue Werbegestalter) letterhead	1929	Letterpress
Newsletter for the Hannover Municipal Theaters Opera House (Städtische Bühnen Hannover, Opernhaus)	1929	Letterpress and lithograph
Newsletter for the Hannover Municipal Theaters Playhouse (Städtische Bühnen Hannover, Schauspielhaus)	1932	Letterpress
Nicht rostender Stahl	1927	Letterpress
Notice for display in streetcar, for Üstra (Überlandwerke und Strassenbahnen Hannover AG) (Notice reads "Your right hand on the right-hand handle. That's how you get on when the whistle blows. And when you're leaving, here's the trick: Your left hand on the left-hand handle goes.")	1929	Letterpress
Notice for display in streetcar, for Üstra (Überlandwerke und Strassenbahnen Hannover AG) (Notice reads, "Distracted conductors might not see you there. Assuming you're honest, you'll pay them your fare.")	1929	Letterpress
Notice for display in streetcar, for Üstra (Überlandwerke und Strassenbahnen Hannover AG) (Notice reads, "Inform us of your route and where you want to go. And then pay us please use small change, once we know.")	1929	Letterpress
Notice for display in streetcar, for Üstra (Überlandwerke und Strassenbahnen Hannover AG) (Notice reads, "Your ticket, though it's used and spent. Do keep it safe, untorn, unrent.")	1929	Letterpress
One One (Eins Eins)	1919	Cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers on paper on colored cardstock
Opened by Customs	1937	Paper, printed paper, oil paint and graphite on paper
Order card for publications of the Aposs-Verlag from the New Architecture (Neue Architektur) series and Fairy Tales of Our Time (Märchen unserer Zeit)	1925	Letterpress
Page 97 from Merz 11, Typoreklame	1924	Letterpress
Picture of Spatial Growths - Picture with Two Small Dogs	1920	Oil paint, wood, paper, cardboard and china on board
Picture with Light Center (Bild mit heller Mitte)	1919	Cut-and-pasted colored paper and printed paper, oil, and pencil on paperboard
Plate (folio 1) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 2) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 3) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 4) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 5) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 6) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate (folio 7) from Die Kathedrale (Die Silbergäule, vol. 41/42)	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with eight lithographs (one with collage additions)
Plate 1 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 2 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 3 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 3 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 4 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 5 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Plate 6 from Merz 3	1923	Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Postcard for Leibniz Cookies (Leibniz-Keks), Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik ), Hannover	1929	Letterpress
Postcard for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung, Die Gebrauchswohnung, Karlsruhe) (Addressed to Bauhaus Director Hannes Meyer)	1929	Letterpress
Postcard invitation for Merz lecture evening (Merz Vortragsabend)	1928	Letterpress
Postcard invitation to Merz evening (Einladung zum Merzabend)	1923	Letterpress
Poster for Hannover Municipal Theaters (Städtische Bühnen Hannover)	1932	Lithograph
Poster for Opel Day: Great car and flower parade (Opel-Tag: Grosser Auto Blumen Korso)	1927	Lithograph
Poster for Schwitters’s new journal Merz	1923	Letterpress
Poster for the 97th Great Art Exhibition (97. Grosse Kunstausstellung), Künstlerhaus, Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Poster for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung)	1929	Lithograph
Program for the Hannover Municipal Theaters Opera House (Städtische Bühnen Hannover, Opernhaus) production of "The Life of Orestes" (Leben des Orest) by Ernst Krenek	1930	Letterpress
Program for the Hannover Municipal Theaters, Opera House (Städtische Bühnen Hannover, Opernhaus) production of "The Forge" (Die Schmiede) by Kurt Striegler	1932	Letterpress
Red Wire Sculpture	1944	Metal, plaster and stone
Revolving	1919	Wood, metal, cord, cardboard, wool, wire, leather, and oil on canvas
Sample brochure of ruled books (Kleines Liniaturen Musterbuch) for Edler & Krische Hannover	1927	Letterpress and lithograph
Santa Claus	1922	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper with cardstock border
Sonderschau neue Typographie	1929
Stationery discharge certificate for the Hannover Hospital II (Krankenhaus II)	1929	Letterpress
Stationery envelope for Kurt Schwitters	1930	Letterpress
Stationery envelope for Merz Werbezentrale	1924	Letterpress
Stationery envelope for Merz-Werbe	1925	Letterpress
Stationery envelope for the State Tuberculosis Hospital, Sanitorium Heidehaus (Städtisches Tuberkulosekrankenhaus Heilstätte Heidehaus)	1929	Letterpress
Stationery envelope for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung)	1929	Letterpress
Stationery invoice for Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Stationery invoice for Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Stationery invoice for Hermann Bahlen’s Cookie factory (Keks-Fabrik), Hannover	1929	Lithograph
Stationery invoice for Merz Werbe (Merz Publicity)	1927	Letterpress
Stationery invoice for Wilhelm Schröer Printing House and Bindery (Buchdruckerei Buchbinderei), Hannover	1929	Letterpress
Stationery payment allotment from the State Welfare Office (Stadtisches Wohlfartsamt)	1930	Letterpress
Stationery questionnaire for the State Tuberculosis Hospital, Sanitorium Heidehaus (Städtisches Tuberkulosekrankenhaus Heilstätte Heidehaus)	1929	Letterpress
Städtisches Fürsorgeamt Karlsruhe	1929	Letterpress
Table Salt	1922	Printed paper on paper
The Autumn Crocus	1926	Painted concrete
The Proposal	1942	Printed papers on paper
Title page from Merz 3	1923	Letterpress with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs (three with collage additions) and two letterpress prints with collage additions (including cover and title page)
Untitled	1940	Cut-and-pasted printed paper, cloth, and pencil on paper
Untitled (1 September 1923)	1923	Cut-and-pasted paper, colored paper, and printed paper on paper with artist's mat
Untitled (Black and Blue)	1923	Graphite and crayon on paper
Untitled (Blurred)	1930	Black printer's ink on coated paper
Untitled (Mz ELIKAN ELIKAN ELIKAN)	1925	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper with cardstock border
Untitled (Ochre)	1945	Plaster and stone
Untitled (Picture with Basket Ring)	1938	Wood, rattan ring, paper, iron, and steel nails on wood
Untitled (V 2)	1928	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers and ink on cardboard
Untitled (With Black Rectangle)	1925	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers on paper
Untitled (With Vase Shape and Circle)	1938	Graphite on card
Untitled (fec.)	1920	Cut-and-pasted printed paper and pencil on paper on board
Weise Söhne Halle/s	1927	Letterpress
Z 105 Portals of Houses	1918	Chalk on paper

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