For Moholy

Prints and Drawings

1934

Kurt Schwitters
German, 1887-1948

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Kurt Schwitters
Title: For Moholy
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1934
Medium: Collage composed of cut, torn and pasted papers with printed paper elements
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right, in graphite: "für Moholy"
Dimensions: 44.7 × 35 cm (17 5/8 × 13 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.638
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Jay A. Clarke, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Carola Kupfer, Mark Pascale, Virginia Voedisch, “Portfolio,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), pp. 98-99, cat. 15.
Stephanie D’Alessandro, “History by Degrees: The Place of the Past in Contemporary German Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), pp. 75-76.
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz (editors), Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné II (Hannover, 2003), p. 452, no. 1946 (ill.).

The Arts Club of Chicago, “Schwitters,” November 25-December 16, 1952, cat. 40.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, “Fifth Anniversary Exhibition,” September 28-October 28, 1953.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, “Schwitters,” 1959 (ill.).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” December 1984-January 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 101 and 112, cat. 143, fig. 105.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Shatter, Rupture, Break”, February 15 - May 3, 2015

Given by the artist to László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), 1934-46 [inscription and Orchard and Schulz, 2003]; by descent to his wife, Sybil Moholy-Nagy, 1946-52. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1952-53. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by 1953 [letter in Shapiro archive]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.

55 Kurt Schwitters, For Moholy, 1934

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