Mz 457
1921
Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Not on View

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 457
  • Date: 1921
  • Medium: Collage with pasted paper and cloth on textured wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 7-1/8 x 5-3/4 in. (18.1 x 14.6 cm); sheet: 8-3/4 x 7-1/4 in. (22.2 x 18.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.562
  • Copyright: © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Object Information

The artist, sold 1924 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Assemblages in 2 and 3 Dimensions

  • Van Nuys, Los Angeles Valley College, 1965 to 1965

Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Scripps College, 1961 to 1961

Art since 1889

  • University of New Mexico, Art Museum, 1964-10-20 to 1964-11-15

Kurt Schwitters

Harbingers of Surrealism

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1966-02-26 to 1966-03-27

Kurt Schwitters

  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1962-04-15 to 1962-05-06
  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1962-06-19 to 1962-07-20
  • The Currier Gallery of Art, 1962-09-27 to 1962-10-18
  • Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, 1962-11-04 to 1962-11-25
  • Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1963-01-07 to 1963-02-04
  • J. B. Speed Art Museum, 1963-02-14 to 1963-03-07

[untitled exhibition]

  • San Francisco, Dilexi Gallery, 1960-10-17 to 1960-11-12

Ferus

  • New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2002-09-12 to 2002-10-19

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

Spiritual Machine

  • San Diego, University of California, 1969-09-18 to 1969-11-05

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14

Constructivist Drawings and Posters

  • Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Department, 1927-01 to

Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2004-11-05 to 2005-03-28

Impossible Realities: Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealist Tradition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1991-07-04 to 1992-03-08

German Expressionism

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1961-04-25 to 1961-06-04

From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13

Works from the Pasadena Art Museum

  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

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

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
  • Schmalenbach, Werner, Kurt Schwitters, cc 49 p. 366
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 443 p. 158
  • Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné (Vol. I, 1905-1922), 2000,
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 418 pp. 420-421
  • Blum, Irving, Ferus, 2002, p. 110, 112
  • Blum, Irving, Ferus (reprint), 2009, p. 110, 112

Additional Artwork by Artist

Lithograph No. 5 from "Merz Portfolio 3" Kurt Schwitters 1923
Lust Murder Box No. 2 Kurt Schwitters 1920-1922
Mz 289. Erfurt Kurt Schwitters 1921
Mz 296. Soup Kurt Schwitters 1921

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