Kurt schwitters collage techniques

On View March 26 through June 26,

Princeton University Art Museum to present
Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
First Major U.S. Exhibition Since MoMA Retrospective 
FEATURES RECREATION OF FAMED MERZBAU INSTALLATION 
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Princeton, N.J.

- Kurt Schwitters (–) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. He is one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century international avant-garde, and has been cited as a profound influence by artists ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Damian Hirst.

Widely acknowledged as a great master of collage, Schwitters’ diverse body of work cut across boundaries, hierarchies and media to include painting, sculpture, typography, poems and performance pieces, and it anticipated most of the leading art movements of the late 20th century.

Now, Schwitters is the subject of a major retrospective, the first in the U.S. in a ge