Kurt SchwittersGermania, 1887–1948C 35 paper clouds
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, Stati Uniti
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- 12 giorni fa
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- Numero di inventario
- 577.1964
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- Museum of Modern Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 12 giorni fa
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Nel frattempo, nella vita di Kurt Schwitters
Tutta la vita1941–1945
Mixes with Gabo, Moholy-Nagy and Nicholson in London
He makes contact with a range of artists in London, including Naum Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy and Ben Nicholson, and exhibits in a number of the city’s galleries, but with little success.
April 1944
First stroke
In April 1944, at the age of 56, he suffers his first stroke, which leaves him temporarily paralysed on one side of his body.
29 October 1944
His wife Helma dies
Helma dies of cancer, though Schwitters only hears of her death in December.
December 1944
First solo exhibition in London
Forty works are shown at The Modern Art Gallery, priced between 15 and 40 guineas, but only one is bought.
7 January 1948
Learns he has been granted British citizenship
On 7 January 1948 he receives the news that he has been granted British citizenship; the next day he dies at Kendal Hospital of acute pulmonary oedema and myocarditis.
8 gennaio 1948
Died
