Anna Blume: Dichtungen
Artist: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Publisher: Hanover, Paul Steegemann, 1919
Printer: Elder & Krische, Hanover
Author: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
book: 8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in. (224 x 146mm)
page: 8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in. (224 x 146mm)
Medium: Reproduction: photolithograph of a drawing (cover)
Text: letterpress
Paper: beige wove paper
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1979.103
Label Text:Dada in Hannover, Germany was a solo enterprise launched by Kurt Schwitters in 1919. He called what he did "Merz": "Merz stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation." Anna Blume is his parody of a love poem, mixing clichéd phrases with found text fragments. Schwitters' cover design, highlighting the word "dada", is a kind of visual equivalent to his texts, with its crude technique, fragmentary forms, and abrupt shifts. Anna Blume was an astonishing success for a work intended to abuse its public.
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