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Anna Blume: Dichtungen
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Anna Blume: Dichtungen

Artist Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Publisher Hanover, Paul Steegemann, 1919
Printer Elder & Krische, Hanover
Author Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Date1919
Dimensionsbook: 8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in. (224 x 146mm)
page: 8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in. (224 x 146mm)
MediumReproduction: photolithograph of a drawing (cover) Text: letterpress Paper: beige wove paper
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1979.103
Not on View
Label TextDada 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.Published Referencescf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 15, repr.Exhibition HistoryTMA Feb 2 - April 2, 2001 cover only (Dada) Toledo Museum of Art, Pop Prints from the TMA Collection, July 7 - October 8, 2006. Between the Wars; Sept. 5 2008 through Dec.31 2008. Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.
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