Kurt Schwitters fled his home in Hanover, Germany, in 1937, and later settled in Ambleside. He was awarded his British citizenship papers on 7 January 1948, the day before he died, penniless ...
Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887. Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz . He made paintings, collages and objects; he wrote poems ...