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1941–1945

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.

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 stycznia 1948

Died