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Kurt Schwitters
The cathedral1920

Not on view
Printed book cover on tan kraft paper with bold black hand-lettered text in multiple sizes, a sketched building, and a pasted paper slip with handwritten and printed text including 'MERZ,' 'dada,' and 'KATHEDRALE'
Print with an oval format containing an abstract composition of overlapping geometric planes in black and gray, with visible ink texture, small white dots, and intersecting angular lines throughout.
Artist or Maker
Kurt Schwitters
Germany, 1887-1948
Title
The cathedral
Place Made
Germany, Hannover
Date Made
1920
Medium
Printed material and eight lithographs on wove paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.722a-h
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.