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Mit Spinne
Mit Spinne
Mit Spinne

Mit Spinne

by Kurt Schwitters
Artist (Tyskland, 1887 - 1948)
Alternate Title
  • Med spindel
  • With Spider
Date1921
DimensionsBildmått: 13 × 9,5 cm Ram: 44 × 37 × 3,5 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineDonation 1962 från Moderna Museets Vänner
Object NumberNMB 1866
CollectionsModerna Museets Vänner
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkKurt Schwitters made art out of garbage and things he found in the street. He began making collages in 1918, when Germany was suffering after its defeat in the First World War. Schwitters was active in the dada movement that evolved in Europe and made anti-art in protest against the prevailing order that had triggered the First World War. He called his works Merz, a word fragment that he allegedly took from “Commerzbank”, printed on a scrap of paper. By selecting, arranging and deforming material he found, he gave it new meanings. Schwitters created many small collages and a few larger assemblages in his lifetime, and even transformed the houses he lived in into cave-like assemblages that he called Merzbau. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad nere till vänster Selected exhibition history Jan Håfströms urval ur MM:s samlingar (1994-1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Dada-utställningen (1966) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Givet av MMV (1972) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Bildmuseet - Dada och surrealism (2003) Bildmuseet, Umeå Önskemuseet (1963-1964) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Önskemuseet : the museum of our wishes : notre musée tel qu´il devrait être : museum unserer wünsche : [utställning i Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26 december 1963 - 16 februari 1964] / ordnad av Moderna Museets VännerGivet av Moderna Museets vänner : [Moderna Museet : 22.1 - 13.2 1972]Dada : meddelande från Moderna Museets vännerThe Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]