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Kurt Schwitters collages – in pictures

Kurt Schwitters artworks
Untitled (With an Early Portrait of Kurt Schwitters), 1937-8                                Photograph: Herling/Gwose/Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Kurt Schwitters Artworks
En Morn, 1947. No material was considered unsuitable for art by Schwitters. His collages using magazine cuttings, found objects, sweet wrappers etc paved the way for pop art and arte povera Photograph: © Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/DACS 2012
Kurt Schwitters artworks
Untitled (Quality Street), 1943, made of collaged sweet wrappers Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
Kurt Schwitters Artworks
Merz Picture 46 A. The Skittle Picture, 1921, which uses fallen wooden skittles Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
Kurt Schwitters artworks
47.15 Pine Trees C.26, 1946-47.                                                                     Photograph: Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Kurt Schwitters Artworks
Irgendetwas mit einem Stein (Anything With a Stone), 1941-4 Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
Kurt Schwitters artworks
Untitled (Relief Within Relief), 1942/1945 Photograph: Tate
Kurt Schwitters Artworks
C21 John Bull, 1946/1947                                                                            Photograph: Sprengel Museum Hannover
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