Schwitters. Border crosser of the avant-garde

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most important representatives of the international art avant-garde of the interwar period. He was an unconventional border crosser who created an unmistakable synthesis of art, design and literature with his art.

At the heart of his work was the principle of collage as an attempt to create new contexts of meaning from the contradictory everyday reality of modern life and to counter the chaos of the world with a poetic order.

The exhibition shows Schwitters' multi-layered work, from Dadaist collages and his reconstructed walk-in "Merzbau" in Hanover to naturalistic portraits and landscape paintings. It sheds light on his creative resilience in exile and his role as an independent artist and writer between the currents of modernism. With Schwitters. Grenzgänger der Avantgarde, the Zentrum Paul Klee is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition on Kurt Schwitters in Switzerland for 20 years.

Curator: Martin Waldmeier
Curatorial assistance: Josephine Rechberg

In cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation, Hannover


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