A museum that really wants to promote modern art might give… - Kurt Schwitters

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A museum that really wants to promote modern art might give the artist a guaranty, on certain conditions, so that he can get on with his life and his creations. Or do you believe that the museum is more interested in the artist's death, in order to see the price of his paintings go up?

Kurt Schwitters

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About Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 – January 8, 1948) was a German painter who played an important role in Dada. He worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, typography and what came to be known as installation art.

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Alternative Names: Herman Edward Karl Julius Schwitters • Kurt Herman Edward Karl Julius Schwitters • Curt Hermann Eduard Carl Julius Schwitters • Schwitters • Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters

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So, Huelsenbeck has put our feud in print -- HA HA
So he sneers at my bourgeois home -- my child
who cries, who has to be changed and fed
So he laughs at my solid wife -- that she's no Anna Bloom...

Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
pögiff,
Kwii Ee.

It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.

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