Kurt Schwitters

Witty, lyrical and abstract: the art of Kurt Schwitters

30 May 2026 9:00 am

The German Dadaist developed his own brand of anti-rational art, transforming the junk of everyday life into vivid collages

From top left: Lucian Freud, Rudolf Bing, Stefan Zweig, Walter Gropius, Rudolf Laban, Max Born, Kurt Schwitters, Friedrich Hayek, Fritz Busch, Frank Auerbach, Emeric Pressburger, Oskar Kokoschka

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