Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitterswas a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth20 June 1887
CityHanover, Germany
CountryGermany
artist names together
My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
taken color play
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth. I call the weltanschauung from which this mode of artistic creation arose 'Merz.' The word 'Merz' had no meaning when I formed it. Now it has the meaning which I gave it. The meaning of the concept 'Merz' changes with the change in the insight of those who continue to work with it.
essentials form mediums
The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
together purpose rubbish
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.
fragments made new-things
New things had to be made out of fragments.