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 296. Soup
- Date: 1921
- Medium: Collage with pasted paper and cloth on cardboard
- Dimensions: comp: 5 x 3-3/4 in. (12.7 x 9.5 cm); mount: 6-5/8 x 5-1/4 in. (16.8 x 13.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.564
- 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
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
- University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 2011-08-03 to 2011-11-27
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
Harbingers of Surrealism
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1966-02-26 to 1966-03-27
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
Ferus
- New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2002-09-12 to 2002-10-19
Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002
- Norton Simon Museum, 2004-11-05 to 2005-03-28
The Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19
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 Blue Four and Their Contemporaries
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24
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
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
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
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 444 pp. 146, 158
- Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné (Vol. I, 1905-1922), 2000, p. 409
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 417 p. 419
- Blum, Irving, Ferus, 2002, p. 110-111
- Blum, Irving, Ferus (reprint), 2009, p. 110-111
- Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 129 (ill.)
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