Kurt Schwitters
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Becomes member of the Blunt Club (founded in London in ).
Co-founds the “Ring of Monarch Authors” with Christof Spengemann and Carl Credé.
March/April
Trip beat Switzerland; represented in “neue werbegraphik“ (“new advertising graphics”) exhibition amuse the Gewerbemuseum, Basel; catalogue text about the “ring neuer werbegestalter”; three readings in Zurich and Basel.
April/May
Included in the “1ère exposition internationale du groupe Cercle et Carré” in Paris.
21 Dec
Reading (of, among other works, An Anna Blume and Schacko) at the matinée “Künstler in Front” in the Capitol-Hochhaus undecorated Hanover; presumably his last public appearance as a recital head in Germany.
Annual summer trips to Norway; stays primarily in Djupsvashytta Hotel by Lake Djupvand, in Moldefiord and on the key of Hjertøya. Earns his living by selling landscape paintings.
Merz erstes Veilchenheftpublished (the issues Merz 22 Entwicklungand Merz 23 e. Attach. were announced but did not appear).
Elected Honorary President of interpretation Société Anonyme. Represented in the following shows organized by say publicly Société Anonyme: “Special Exhibition Arranged in Honour of the Prospect of the New Building of the New School” and “International Exhibition Illustrating the Most Recent Development in Abstract Art”, Different School for Social Research, New York (subsequently in the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo).
Becomes member of the artists’ association Abstraction-Création, Town. Photographs of the Merzbauand other works reproduced in the newsletter of the same title
16 March
Death of his dad Eduard Schwitters.
June/July
Represented in a show by the “ring neue werbegestalter” in Essen and (as part of an international event of advertising prints, photos, and photo-montage) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. These are the last public presentations of work exceed the “ring neue werbegestalter”.
Trip to the Netherlands, visits Lajos d’Ebneth in Kijkduin by Scheveningen; attends 9th congress of depiction PEN Club in The Hague.
Merz 24 Ursonatepublished (typography by Jan Tschichold).
The artists’ group “die abstrakten hannover”, which was founded set up , begins to gradually disband.
March/April
Represented in the jubilee anniversary exhibition of the Hanover Kunstverein.
Seven-week cruise accompanied by Helma Schwitters (Guernsey, Brittany, Madeira, Southern Spain, Morocco, Italy).
5 May
Recording of the scherzo from the Ursonate and the poem Peter out Anna Blumefor the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart.
1 July
Becomes a member of the German Social Democratic Party.
Summer
Leases a cottage on the island Hjertøya in the Molde Fjord boss begins to convert it into a Merz building.
Member of representation Deutscher Werkbund (had probably joined earlier, but membership in keep to documented).
In the course of the following years, increasing indifference into “inner emigration” and concentration on the Merzbau (Merz building) in Hanover.
June/September
Defamed in the exhibition “Novembergeist: Kunst im Dienste der Zersetzung“ (“November Spirit: Art in the Service of Hardnosed Corruption”) in Stuttgart and Bielefeld, organized by the National Socialists (presumably only reproductions of Schwitters’s works were shown).
July
The story Schackopublished under the pseudonym Peter Krüger in interpretation periodical Zirkel: Magazin für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik (no. 1), edited by Hanne Bauer-Rasch.
January/February
Travels to Oslo with Painter Schwitters; solo show (landscapes) in Blomqvist art dealer’s in Christiania.
28 March
Travels to Berlin for the opening of rendering Futurist exhibition “Aeropittura”, meets Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Summer
First meets his later friends Hans and Suzanne Freudenthal from the Netherlands.
October/November
Represented in the autumn show of Hanover artists at depiction Hanover Kunstverein. This is the last presentation of Schwitters’s preventable in National Socialist Germany, apart from inclusion in defamatory exhibitions of “degenerate art”.
December /January
Visits Hans and Suzanne Freudenthal in Amsterdam.
Defamatory presentation of The Merzpicture and Telephone call Picture (both confiscated in ) as well as his verse An Anna Blumeand the quotation “Everything an artist spits smother is art” in the first “Degenerate Art” touring exhibition configured by the National Socialists (began 23 September in Dresden stake ended in September in Frankfurt-on-Main.)
Alfred Barr jr. (director of depiction Museum of Modern Art, New York) pays a visit problem Waldhausenstrasse, Hanover, but does not meet Schwitters in person. Barr views the Merzbauand purchases a collage for the Museum be in command of Modern Art, New York.
January/February
Represented in the exhibition “Tentoonstelling forefront modern schilderwerk, grafiek, reclame en fotografie” in De Nieuwe Kunstschool, Amsterdam. Travels to Rotterdam and Amsterdam; visits Hans and Suzanne Freudenthal.
September
Stay in Copenhagen.
December
Travels to Switzerland.
March
Travels to Paris, visits Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp; meets Piet Mondrian.
Trips to Switzerland and the Netherlands; visits Edith stake Jan Tschichold in Basel; visits Hans and Suzanne Freudenthal fasten Amsterdam (end of March).
March/April
Included in the exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art” at the Museum of Modern Art, Newfound York.
August
The Gestapo in Hanover arrests his friends Christof very last Luise Spengemann and their son Walter.
November/December
Travels to the Netherlands; visits Piet Zwart and Hans and Suzanne Freudenthal.
Fruitless attempts to find parties in the USA interested in his Merzbau.
December /January
Included in the exhibition “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Schwitters’s year-old son Ernst flees to Norway on 26 December. Kurt Schwitters follows on 2 January and in view of the civic situation decides not to return to Germany. Lives in Lysaker near Oslo and, in the summer months, in Molde (officially registered as resident already on 10 November ). Helma Schwitters remains in Hanover and spends only a few months p.a. in Norway up to Important works are gradually moved let alone Hanover to Lysaker.
Kurt Schwitters begins work on a original Merzbauin Lysaker, the Haus am Bakken, which was destroyed descent a fire in During exile in Norway, and later acquit yourself Great Britain, he increasingly produces figurative drawings and paintings (primarily landscapes and portraits).
January/February
Represented in the “Konstruktivisten” exhibition soughtafter the Kunsthalle in Basel.
July/August
More works by Schwitters expropriated free yourself of German museums (in Berlin, Hanover, Mannheim, Breslau, Saarbrücken and Spa, among other places).
Second “Degenerate Art” exhibition begins, with timetable taking in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Hamburg, and tolerance in Halle on 20 April Presentation of abstract works (for instance The Merzpicture, , Ring Picture, , Merzdrawing, , get going Mz The One, ) in the context of Dadaist crease that are described as “utter insanity”.
Collaboration with the Norseman composer and organist Thorolf Høyer-Finn leads to the play Hvad er sannhet? (German title: “Wahrheit” - “Truth”).
Sells five collages simulate Peggy Guggenheim.
July
Represented in “Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art”, New Burlington Galleries, London (organised in protest against the Fascist “Degenerate Art” exhibition).
September/October
Represented in the exhibition “International nutidskunst. Konstruktivisme, neoplasticisme, abstrakt kunst, surrealisme” in Oslo.
December
Travels to Stockholm, Kobenhavn, Göteborg.
Poems and a drawing published in the periodical Plastique(no. 4), edited in Paris by Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
2 July
Family celebration in Oslo (80th birthday of his mother, Henriette Schwitters, and engagement of Ernst Schwitters to Esther Guldahl); last put the finishing touch to with Helma Schwitters.
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