When was kurt schwitters born
Kurt Schwitters
20 June
Curt Hermann Eduard Carl Julyus Schwitters is born to the shop owners Eduard and Henriette Schwitters (née Beckemeyer), in Rumannstrasse number 2 in Hanover.
Starts school at the Modernes Realgymnasium I, Hanover.
Travels with his father to the World Fair in Paris.
Nervous disorder, first psychogenic non-epileptic seizure.
Produces first pictures.
Studies at the School of Applied Art, Hanover. Taught by Richard Schlösser.
Studies at the Royal Saxon Academy of Art in Dresden on the recommendation of his teacher Richard Schlösser. Summer semester to summer semester attends Carl Bantzer’s painting class; from winter semester onwards member of master class of Gotthardt Kuehl; additional tuition from Emmanuel Hegenbarth (animal painting), Hermann Dittrich (anatomical and nude studies), and from literary historian Oskar Walzel.
Granted leave from studies in summer semester and from winter semester onwards, removed from students’ register on 9 August
Writes first poems.
Summer
Joins class of Carl Bantzer in a painting excursion to artists’ colony Willingshausen in Hesse.
Spring
The Hanover Kunstgenossenschaft art cooperative (local grouping of the national Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft) turns down Schwitters’ pictures for inclusion in the spring show of the local art society, the Hanover Kunstverein.
August
Represented for the first time in an exhibition (contributes four still-lifes and the portrait of his mother to a show at the Hanover Kunstverein).
Autumn
Applies to Berlin Academy.
Turned down as “untalented” after four-week probation period.
February-May
First inclusion in the “Grosse Kunstausstellung” exhibition at Hanover Kunstverein; contributes again , , and
September/October
First inclusion in the autumn show of Hanover artists at the Hanover Kunstverein.
Contributes regularly up to
Summer
Trip to Lake Garda.
August
Outbreak of First World War. Returns to Hanover.
13 June
Engagement to Helma Fischer.
5 October
Marries Helma Fischer; the couple moves into a flat on the second floor of his parents’ house at Waldhausenstrasse 5, Hanover.
Sets up a studio in his parents’ flat on the first floor.
Winter
Honeymoon journey to Opherdicke, Westphalia.
9 and 17 September
Birth and death of Gerd, their first son.
Interest in Expressionism and abstract art. Begins the series of oil paintings entitled Abstractions.
Meets the critic, journalist and advertising specialist Christof Spengemann in Hanover, who introduces Schwitters to the town’s literary circles; a lifelong friendship begins between the two families.
12 March June
Soldier in Reichs-Infanterieregiment Declared unfit for service.
May/June
Represented for the first time in the special show of Hanover artists at the Hanover Kestner-Gesellschaft (founded in June ).
25 June November
Auxiliary military service as a mechanical draughtsman in Wülfel ironworks, Hanover.
Hands in notice in order to devote himself to painting.
Wintersemester
Enrols in architecture department of the Royal Technical High School, Hanover.
Produces an extensive series of abstract drawings as well as the series of oil paintings entitled Expressions.
January/February
Meets Kate Steinitz, an artist and patron in Hanover.
A lifelong friendship begins.
February/March
Contributes to the first show of the Hanover Secession at the Kestner-Gesellschaft. The Hanover Secession was founded in June ; Kurt Schwitters joined at the beginning of ; included again and
June
First included in a show at Herwarth Walden’s Sturm gallery in Berlin (together with Albert Bloch, Emmy Klinker and Elisabeth Niemann); exhibits there regularly up to
Herbst
Meets Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch in Berlin.
Beginning of lively artistic exchange and lifelong friendships.
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Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. His father was co- proprietor of a ladies' clothes shop. The business was sold in , and the family used the money to buy some properties in Hanover, which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitters' life in Germany. In , Schwitters suffered his first epileptic seizure, a condition that would exempt him from military service in World War I until late in the war, when conscription were loosened.Produces first collages.
16 November
Birth of son Ernst.
Winter
Produces first assemblages. Schwitters invents the term “Merz” for his art. All subsequent activities designated “Merz”, and propagated as such. Even after turning towards abstraction, he continues to produce figurative works in the post-Impressionist style.
Produces first Stempelzeichnungen(rubber-stamp drawings) and graphic prints; begins series of Dadaist watercolours.
Becomes a member of the IVEKF (International Association of Expressionists, Cubists and Futurists), founded by Herwarth Walden, Rudolf Blümner and others.
May
Meets Richard Huelsenbeck in Berlin.
Establishes written contact with Tristan Tzara in Zurich.
July
First public showing of Merzbilder(Merz Pictures) in the 76th exhibition of the Sturm gallery in Berlin, together with work by Magda Langenstrass-Uhlig.
Late
Publication of the book Anna Blume. Dichtungen as part of series Die Silbergäule(nos.
39/40), Paul Steegemann Verlag, Hanover.
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