Kurt Schwitters, 1887/1949

Kurt Schwitters, Master Collagist

A Retrospective, 1918- 1947

An Anna Blume, Kurt Schwitters' poem translated into English by the artist.

Thirty years of the artist's collage arranged chronologically to alow full appreciation of his development in the medium.

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Schwitters by Tlissitzky

"My name is Kurt Schwitters...I am an artist and I nail my pictures together..."

Merz Sculpture and Architecture

1923

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Merzaule Im Merzbau

1934-

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Merzbau Hanover

Merz Collage and Assemblage

1918 18.1 x 14.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY	1919 103 x 83.3 cm LA County Museum of Art	1919 122.7 x 88.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY
1919 20.4 x 17.4 cm Private Collection	1919 21.6 x 17.1 cm Marlborough Fine Art, London	1919 84.5 x65.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY
1919 91.5 x 72.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, NY	1919 The Psychiatrist	c. 1919 Merzbild Rossfett Assemblage 8 x 6 7/8 in. (20.4 x 17.4 cm) Private collection
1920 104.5 x 79 cm Kunstssammlung Nordhein-Westfalen	1920 97.8 x 65.8 cm Sprengel Museum, Hannover	1920 18 x 14.3 cm Kunstssammlung Nordhein-Westfalen
1921 18 x 14.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY	1922 28.4 x 20.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY	1924 Cherry Picture(Collage of pieces of wood, etc.) 36 1/8 x 27 3/4 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1924 69 x 34.2 cm Marlborough Fine Art, London	1925 43.5 x 36.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, NY	1925-28 Merz Picture with Candle
1926 67.5 x 52 cm Kunstssammlung Nordhein-Westfalen	1926 Bild 1926, 3.Cicero Painted relief 26 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (68.1 x 49.6 cm) Sprengel Museum, Hannover	1930 31.2 x 23.5 cm Collection of Donald B. Marron
1931 81.9 x 110.5 cm Collection of Insel Hombroich	1933- 34 59.1 x 45.5 cm Collection of Branco Weiss	1938 87.8 x 72 cm Collection of Mrs. Antonina Gmurzynska
1939 155.9 x 121 cm Private Collection	1939 32.5 x 32.5 cm Private Collection	1940 77.5 x 67.5 x 25.5 cm Ludwig Collection
1942- 3 79.5 x 61 cm Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY	1944 34.7 x 24.5 cm Private Collection	1945 52 x 45 cm Galerie Gmurzyanska, Cologne
1947 52.9 x 33.8 cm Private Collection

EVE BLOSSOM
(Kurt Schwitters' own translation of 'An Anna Blume')

Oh thou, beloved of my twenty-seven senses, I love thine! Thou thee thee thine, I thine,
thou mine, we?
That (by the way) is beside the point!
Who art thou, uncounted woman, Thou art, art thou?
People say, thou werst,
Let them say, they don't know what they are talking about.
Thou wearest thine hat on thy feet, and wanderest on thine hands,
On thine hands thou wanderest
Hallo, thy red dress, sawn into white folds,
Red I love Eve Blossom, red I love thine,
Thou thee thee thine, I thine, thou mine, we?
That (by the way) belongs to the cold glow!
Eve Blossom, red Eve Blossom what do people say?
PRIZE QUESTION: 1. Eve Blossom is red,
2. Eve Blossom has wheels
3. what colour are the wheels?
Blue is the colour of your yellow hair
Red is the whirl of your green wheels,
Thou simple maiden in everyday dress,
Thou small green animal,
I love thine!
Thou thee thee thine, I thine, thou mine, we?
That (by the way) belongs to the glowing brazier!
Eve Blossom, eve,
E - V - E,
E easy, V victory, E easy,
I trickle your name.
Your name drops like soft tallow.
Do you know it, Eve?
Do you already know it?
One can also read you from the back
And you, you most glorious of all,
You are from the back as from the front,
E-V-E.
Easy victory.
Tallow trickles to stroke over my back
Eve Blossom,
Thou drippy animal,
I
Love
Thine!
I love you!!!!

(Thanks to The Kurt Schwitters Page from which this translation was borrowed.)

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