Mz 380. Schlotheim | Yale University Art Gallery

1922

Medium: Collage of brown, beige, and offwhite wove papers of various textures, white paper with red printed color, graphite rule, gray ink or watercolor wash, and black chalk/charcoal, inset in gray cardstock windowmat with cut and pasted newsprint title
Dimensions: image: 7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (18.8 × 15 cm)
sheet: 16 5/16 × 12 3/16 in. (41.5 × 30.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
Accession Number: 1941.682
Geography: Made in Germany
Culture: German
Period: 20th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

Purchased from the artist, Hanover, 1924.

Bibliography

Christine Eckett, Kurt Schwitters: Zwischen Geist und Materie (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2012), 273, fig. 17

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), collages, popular prints

graphic design newspapers newsprint text typefaces words

Inscribed in ink LL of mat: "MZ 380"; pasted sheet with printed word: "Schlotheim."

Signed and dated in ink LR of mat: "K. Schwitters.1922"

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