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KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)

Lot 535
03.03.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 908284
Lot 535 | KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)

Ohne Titel (Contramerk.)

paper collage on cardboard

5 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (13.3 x 11 cm.)

Executed in 1923





Provenance

Ernst Schwitters, the artist's son, Lysaker.

Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, by 1993.

Acquired by the present owner in 1993.



Literature

A. Grigoteit (ed.), Ein Jahrhundert: Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, 2001, p. 53 (illustrated).

K. Orchard & I. Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1923-1936, Hannover, 2003, no. 1130, p. 55 (illustrated pp. 55 & 135).



Exhibited

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Auf Papier, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, March - April 1995, no. 191, p. 312 (illustrated p. 313); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Berlinischen Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, May - July 1995; and Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, August - September 1995.

Heerlen, Stadsgalerij, Kurt Schwitters in Nederland. Merz, De Stijl & Holland Dada, March - June 1997, no. 7, p. 131 (illustrated p. 51).

Bozen, Museion, Abstracta: Austria Germania Italia, 1919-1939, Die andere "entartete Kunst". L'altra "arte degenerata", September - November 1997, no. 30 (illustrated p. 127); this exhibition later travelled to Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, November 1997 - January 1998; and Trento, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, January - March 1998.

Hanover, Sprengel Museum, In the Beginning was MERZ - from Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day, August - November 2000, no. 82, p. 322 (illustrated p. 111); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, November 2000 - February 2001; and Munich, Haus der Kunst, March - May 2001.
Artist:Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948)
Applied technique:Collage
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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