Merz

Prints and Drawings

1922

Kurt Schwitters
German 1887–1948

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Kurt Schwitters
Title: Merz
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.: Made 1922
Medium: Collage composed of cut and pasted paper elements, with brush and red and black ink, on tan wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "K.Schwitters.22"
Dimensions: 31 × 23.6 cm (12 1/4 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2012.92
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 172, cat. 123 (ill.).

Providence, R. I., Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, “Poetry and Fact in Modern Art,” May 2–June 5, 1962.
Woltham, MA, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, “Fifty Drawings by Fifty Modern Masters,” Feb. 22–April 5, 1970.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 172, cat. 123 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Shatter, Rupture, Break,” Feb. 15- May 3, 2015.

Sold by Rose Fried Gallery, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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