Artist Monograph

Kurt Schwitters, German

German, 1887–1948

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Medium Breakdown

Medium Works at MoMA Share
Other Media 89 54.3%
Lithography 36 22%
Printmaking 17 10.4%
Drawing 10 6.1%
Oil Painting 3 1.8%
Sculpture 2 1.2%
Gouache 1 0.6%
Photography 1 0.6%

Kurt Schwitters’s MoMA holdings concentrate in Other Media (22,470 total works in this medium by 3,843 artists), with secondary engagement in Lithography, Printmaking, Drawing, Oil Painting, Sculpture, Gouache, Photography.

Department Distribution

MoMA DepartmentWorksShare
Architecture & Design10564%
Drawings & Prints5734.8%
Painting & Sculpture21.2%

Production by Decade

1
0s
7
1910s
128
1920s
24
1930s
4
1940s

Classification Types

  • Design — 105
  • Drawing — 37
  • Print — 10
  • Illustrated Book — 10
  • Painting — 1
  • Sculpture — 1

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquiredWorks
19351
19362
19398
19501
19529
195318
19541
19552
19641
19675
19682
19751
19777
19805
19853
199928
201514
201856

German Contemporaries

  1. 835 Lilly Reich
  2. 750 August Sander
  3. 270 Thomas Schütte
  4. 260 Martin Kippenberger
  5. 224 Michael Schmidt