Schwitters founded the Dadaist movement in Hanover in 1923. He called the movement "Merz" (something cast-off, like junk). About the process of making art, Schwitters wrote: "Because the medium is unimportant, I take any material whatsoever if the picture demands it. . . .I call the world view from which this mode of artistic creation arose �Merz.'. . .The meaning of the concept "Merz" changes with the change in the insight of those who continue to work with it."
Details
- Artist Name: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
- Title: Mz 289. Erfurt
- Date: 1921
- Medium: Collage with pasted paper, cloth, watercolor and pencil on heavy wove paper
- Dimensions: comp: 6-1/2 x 5-3/8 in. (16.5 x 13.7 cm); sheet: 8-1/2 x 6-5/8 in. (21.6 x 16.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.314
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Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
[untitled exhibition]
- San Francisco, Dilexi Gallery, 1960-10-17 to 1960-11-12
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960 to 1960
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1961 to 1961
- Scripps College, 1961 to 1961
Kurt Schwitters
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1962-06-19 to 1962-07-20
Spiritual Machine
- San Diego, University of California, 1969-09-18 to 1969-11-05
Kurt Schwitters
- Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1971-01-12 to 1971-02-28
- Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany), 1971-03-12 to 1971-04-18
- Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1971-05-14 to 1971-07-18
- Kunsthalle Basel, 1971-07-31 to 1971-09-09
- Hamburg, Kunstverein, 1971-09-24 to 1971-11-21
Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 2011-08-03 to 2011-11-27
Ferus
- New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2002-09-12 to 2002-10-19
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002
- Norton Simon Museum, 2004-11-05 to 2005-03-28
Constructivist Drawings and Posters
- Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1927-01 to
German Expressionism
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1961-04-25 to 1961-06-04
Abstract Art Show
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1939-10-19 to 1939-12-03
Works from the Pasadena Art Museum
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10
The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 442 p. 155
- Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné (Vol. I, 1905-1922), 2000, p. 408
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 416 pp. 416-418
- Blum, Irving, Ferus, 2002, p. 110, 113
- Blum, Irving, Ferus (reprint), 2009, p. 110, 113
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