Kurt Schwitters in his artist quotes on Dada & life - free resource, German art history

Kurt Schwitters in his quotes - the artist on his life and his art & collage in non-political Dada in Germany - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in German art history

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Kurt Schwitters was a German Dadaist sculptor, painter, poet and writer. He represented as essential Dada artist the non-political Dada in Germany. He organized Dada-meetings, o.a. in The Netherlands, together with Theo van Doesburg.
Schwitters had to move to Norway in the 1930’s and later to England, to escape the terror of Nazism. He became famous for his many glued collages.

Schwitters refers in his quotes to his own created Dada art, like the many glued collages he made and his Dada-poems (he partly created with Hans Arp) and to his installation art ‘Merz-bau’ and his music-piece the ‘Ursonate’.
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Some selected quotes of German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

’My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters… .I’m a painter and I nail my pictures… .I’d like to be accepted into the Dada Club’ - source of Schwitters’ quote: his letter to Swiss Dadaist Hans Richter, c. 1916; as quoted in ‘I is Style’, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 151

’Every artist must be allowed to mould a picture out of nothing but blotting paper, for example, provided he is capable of moulding a picture! - Schwitters’ quote in his text: ‘Merz. Für den Ararat geschrieben’, (1920); as cited in ‘Kurt Schwitters, das literarische Werk’, ed. Friedhelm Lach, Germany, Vol 5, p. 77

’Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu, pögiff, Kwii Ee. Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, dll rrrrr beeeee bö dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö, rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö, beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää,…’ - quote from his text ‘UrSonate’ (Sonata in Primitive and Original Sounds), Kurt Schwitters, 1932; as quoted in ‘Das literarische Werk’, Gernmany ed. Friedhelm Lach, Vol. 1.
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links for free art-resources on German artist Kurt Schwitters:

• more sourced quotes of Kurt Schwitters: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters
• extended biography facts of the Dada-artist Schwitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schwitters
• images of Schwitter’s art, like his many collages: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Kurt Schwitters
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  editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]