Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study

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"Everything's right, and so is the opposite" was the philosophy of the artist Kurt Schwitters, who died in England, an exile from Hitler's Germany. Painter, poet, advertising agent, cabaret artists, and a talented all-rounder, his wildly unorthodox life and works are presented in this biography. The book not only explores Schwitters life but also the background to some of his greatest works. It contains much information about his personal life and places him into an historical context as one of a select group of artists who for over a decade fought a battle against the ever-advancing threat of a Nazi dictatorship.

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". . . commendably thorough in her researches into the life of this remarkable man . . .Gwendolen Webster is to be congratulated on making the life and work of this incredible man so readily accessible to the English reading public." -Modern Language Review

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Gwendolen Webster is a Research Student in Art History at the Open University.