Realizing that machines are abstractions of the human spirit.

In Hanover, Klein Kröpcke (Callinstraße 2), http://www.klein-kroepcke.de/kontakt.php is the best place to start, if you are about to set out on a night of partying, but of course you will no longer be able to meet the artist who loved to illustrate metaphors of human activity by painting machines. In 1901, he suffered his first epileptic seizure, but always he worked in several genres and media (including surrealism, poetry, sound, painting and collage).

KURT SCHWITTERS was born in Hanover at Rumannstraße No. 2 (now No. 8, if you wish visit his home), in a June day. After studying art at the Dresden Academy, he returned to Hanover (where in 1911 he took part in his first exhibition, in Hanover), starting his artistic career as a post-impressionist. As the First World War progressed, his work developed a expressionist tone. Alongside his collages, he altered the interiors of a number of spaces throughout his life (the most famous was the Merzbau, the transformation of some rooms of the family house in Hanover). The Sprengel Museum in Hanover has a reconstruction of the first room of the Merzbau.

KURT SCHWITTERS spent the last years of the war working as a drafter in a factory, and that experience time as influenced his later work, inspiring him to depict machines as metaphors of human activity. In the war, for him things were in terrible turmoil, like a revolution within him, not as it was, but as it should have been. Throughout the 1930s, as the political situation in Germany continued to deteriorate, examples of his work in German museums were confiscated. On 1937 he fled to Norway to join his son Ernst. Following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Norway, he fled to Leith (Scotland), before arriving on July 1940 in Hutchinson Camp (in the Isle of Man). On 1948 he received the news that he had been granted British citizenship, but following day he died from in Kendal Hospital. Before purchasing any work supposedly by him, you can consult the Kurt Schwitters Archive (at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover), Germany.

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