Schwitters

[ shvit-uhrs ]

noun

1. Kurt [k, oo, r, t], 1887–1948, German artist.

Schwitters

/ ˈʃvɪtərs /

noun

1. SchwittersKurt18871948MGermanARTS AND CRAFTS: painterWRITING: poet Kurt (kʊrt). 1887–1948, German dadaist painter and poet, noted for his collages composed of discarded materials

Example Sentences

Over the years, Bridge House has provided inspiration for many artists, writers, and photographers including Harriet Martineau, Edward Lear and Kurt Schwitters, whose defining painting of the quirky house is now part of The Armitt's collection.

From BBC

In truth, they bring us a new Rauschenberg, allowing us to see how an artist who began his career as a Texas-born heir to European Dada and Kurt Schwitters’s scrap-paper collages evolved, in the early ’70s, into an inspired post-Minimalist sculptor.

From New York Times

A collaboration with the audio engineer Andrew Munsey, “A Hard Rain” is a meditative two hours of music, with the dark resonance of a cave — and, in Kurt Schwitters’s “Ursonate,” a flood of Dada babble.

From New York Times

A collage by Kurt Schwitters, made from exile in Norway, and a landscape of Cape Cod by George Grosz, exiled in the United States, broach the fates of German artists who, like Marc, were denounced by the Nazi regime.

From New York Times

Jarmusch’s collages fit within a rich art history, which joins with the art world tradition of appropriation, as sacred as it is misunderstood, from Kurt Schwitters, who assembled delirious assemblages from trash, to Hannah Hoch’s and Man Ray’s Dadaist compositions, to Ad Reinhardt’s clattering, modernist “Newsprint Collage.”

From New York Times