Kurt Schwitters — Für Jan Tschichold | Dada Collage Fine Art Print

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Kurt Schwitters — Für Jan Tschichold | Dada Collage Fine Art PrintKurt Schwitters (18871948) was a German artist best known for his invention of Merz an idiosyncratic strain of Dada in which discarded materials, clippings, tickets, and scraps were assembled into collages of surprising beauty. Rejected by the Berlin Dada circle, he created his own universe. His collage works raw, tender, and formally sophisticated anticipate both Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art and are now held in major museum collections

lithographs

particularly a celebrated 17th-century Safavid edition now partly held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

His Provence canvases — luminous

he combined the Viennese academic tradition with the Orientalist fascination with North Africa

with a combination of scientific accuracy and painterly drama unmatched before or since

Tropez and Collioure to the cut-paper works of his final years

His building sketches — rapid

inspired Rachmaninoff's orchestral tone poem

he produced posters

designing tapestries

ancient hieroglyphs — are simultaneously playful and profound

The Virgin — fuse Byzantine decoration with radical psychological depth