Kurt Schwitters
Summary information
Date
Mon Jul 31 1972 until Mon Sep 11 1972
Location
- MoMA type:exhibition building spaces
- 11 West 53rd St. type:thoroughfare names
Concurrent exhibitions
Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.
Kurt Schwitters
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Italy: The New Domestic Landscape
Atget's Trees
Symbolism, Synthesists, and the Fin-de-Siècle
Prints for Collectors
European Drawings from the Collection
Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation
| # | Start | End | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | ||
| 2 | Italy: The New Domestic Landscape | ||
| 3 | Atget's Trees | ||
| 4 | Symbolism, Synthesists, and the Fin-de-Siècle | ||
| 5 | Prints for Collectors | ||
| 6 | European Drawings from the Collection |
Artists
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Kurt Schwitters
Biographical statement German, 1887–1948
Born 1887 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1948
Nationality German
Gender Male
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Exhibitions
In this dataset, Kurt Schwitters was involved in 88 exhibitions across 9 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 16 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 3 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition | |||
| 2 | Cubism and Abstract Art | |||
| 3 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art | |||
| 2 | New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art | |||
| 3 | The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture | |||
| 4 | Paintings from New York Private Collections | |||
| 5 | Collage | |||
| 6 | Master Prints from the Museum Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
| 2 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 3 | Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism | |||
| 4 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
| 5 | Modern Masterprints of Europe | |||
| 6 | Selections from the Art Lending Service | |||
| 7 | German Art of the 20th Century | |||
| 8 | 50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art Lending Service Retrospective | |||
| 2 | Portraits from the Museum Collection | |||
| 3 | The Art of Assemblage | |||
| 4 | Selections from the Art Lending Service | |||
| 5 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 6 | Art in the Mirror | |||
| 7 | The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection | |||
| 8 | Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967 | |||
| 9 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
| 10 | Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Photo Eye of the 20s | |||
| 2 | A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection | |||
| 3 | Summer Show | |||
| 4 | Summer Penthouse | |||
| 5 | Ways of Looking | |||
| 6 | Kurt Schwitters | |||
| 7 | Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
| 8 | Works on Paper | |||
| 9 | Published in Germany, 1923 | |||
| 10 | In the Twenties | |||
| 11 | Cubism and Its Affinities | |||
| 12 | Posters from the Collection | |||
| 13 | Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America | |||
| 14 | The Graphic Revolution: 1915–1935 | |||
| 15 | Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif | |||
| 16 | Art of the Twenties |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions: Drawings | |||
| 2 | Words and Pictures | |||
| 3 | A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981 | |||
| 4 | The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art | |||
| 5 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings | |||
| 6 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books | |||
| 7 | Drawing in Austria and Germany | |||
| 8 | Kurt Schwitters | |||
| 9 | Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980 | |||
| 10 | Drawings Acquisitions | |||
| 11 | European Drawing Between the Wars | |||
| 12 | Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection | |||
| 13 | Abstractions | |||
| 14 | Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection | |||
| 15 | Master Prints from the Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist's Choice: Ellsworth Kelly, Fragmentation and the Single Form | |||
| 2 | Drawing in Europe, 1881–1938 | |||
| 3 | Master Prints from the Collection | |||
| 4 | Modern Drawing, 1881–1938: Selections from the Collection | |||
| 5 | Reading Prints | |||
| 6 | Dada and Surrealism: Selections from the Collection | |||
| 7 | Modern Drawing: A Selection from the Collection, 1884–1961 | |||
| 8 | A Century of Artists Books | |||
| 9 | Master Prints From the Collection | |||
| 10 | From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson | |||
| 11 | Collecting in Depth: Drawings by Grosz, Schwitters, Ernst, and Klee | |||
| 12 | Modern Starts: Things |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graphic-Photographic | |||
| 2 | Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now | |||
| 3 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 4 | Drawings from the Modern 1880–1945 | |||
| 5 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 6 | Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 7 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006 | |||
| 8 | Dada | |||
| 9 | Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection | |||
| 10 | Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation | |||
| 11 | The New Typography |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century | |||
| 2 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
| 3 | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language | |||
| 4 | Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925 | |||
| 5 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 | |||
| 6 | Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City | |||
| 7 | There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage's "4'33"" |