Kurt Schwitters collages – in pictures
Influential and revered, German artist Kurt Schwitters was a key figure of modernism who spent many years living and working in the Lake District. He made some of the 20th century's most beautiful and accomplished collages, and paved the way for pop art
• Schwitters in Britain is at Tate Britain from 30 January to 12 May
• Schwitters in Britain is at Tate Britain from 30 January to 12 May
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Untitled (With an Early Portrait of Kurt Schwitters), 1937-8
Photograph: Herling/Gwose/Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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En Morn, 1947. No material was considered unsuitable for art by Schwitters. His collages using magazine cuttings, found objects, sweet wrappers etc paved the way for pop art and arte povera
Photograph: © Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/DACS 2012
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Untitled (Quality Street), 1943, made of collaged sweet wrappers
Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
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Merz Picture 46 A. The Skittle Picture, 1921, which uses fallen wooden skittles
Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
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47.15 Pine Trees C.26, 1946-47.
Photograph: Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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Irgendetwas mit einem Stein (Anything With a Stone), 1941-4
Photograph: © Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung, Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover/ DACS 2012
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Untitled (Relief Within Relief), 1942/1945
Photograph: Tate
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C21 John Bull, 1946/1947
Photograph: Sprengel Museum Hannover
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