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1, 3, and 4. Ed. Perdita Lottner. Exh. cats. Hanover: Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1990. Umland, Anne, Adrian Sudhalter, and Scott Gerson. Dada in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, 275—99. Studies in Modern Art, 9. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. Dillon, Brian. “Species of Spaces: Art, Architecture and Environment.” In Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture, 29—37. Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 2008. —. “Dada-Hanover.” In Dada and the Press, 293—349. Ed. Harriett Watts and Stephen C. Foster. Vol. 9 of Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada. New York: G. K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 2004. —. “Kurt Schwitters and Katherine Dreier.” German Life and Letters 52, no. 4 (Oct. 1999): 443-56. 172
Important group exhibitions in Europe and the United States held during Schwitters lifetime may be found in the Chronology. Exhibitions are listed in chronological order. “Collages by Kurt Schwitters,” The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1957 “Kurt Schwitters,” Lord’s Gallery, London, 1958 [Unknown title], Galerie Goyert, Cologne, 1919 “Der Sturm. 76. Ausstellung. Kurt Schwitters, M. Langenstrass-Uhlig,” Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, July 1919 Galerie Herbert Cramer, Frankfurt, 1920 “Der Sturm. 96. Ausstellung. Kurt Schwitters. Merzbilder, Merzzeichnungen. Gesamtschau,” Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, April 1921 “Der Sturm. 138. Ausstellung. Otto Nebel. Kurt Schwitters. Gesamtschau,” Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, February 1925 “Grosse Merzausstellung 1927.” The following venues have been verified: Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden in the Neues Museum and Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Wiesbaden; Städtische Gemäldegalerie, Bochum, Germany; Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, 1927 “Sonderausstellung Kurt Schwitters,” Kunstverein für Böhmen, Prague, 1927 “Kurt Schwitters,” [?] Galerie Blomquist, Oslo, 1934 “Paintings and Sculpture by Kurt Schwitters,” The Modern Art Gallery. London, December 1944 “Gedächtnisausstellung Kurt Schwitters,” Galerie d’Art Moderne Basel, 1948 “Kurt Schwitters,” The Pinacotheca, New York, 1948 “Collage, Painting, Relief and Sculpture by Schwitters,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; The Arts Club of Chicago, 1952 “Kurt Schwitters. Collages,” Berggruen Gallery, Paris, 1954 “Kurt Schwitters: Fifty-Seven Collages,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1956 “Kurt Schwitters,” Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover; Kunsthalle Bern (together with Hans Arp); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lüttich, Germany, 1956 “Seventy-Five Collages by Kurt Schwitters,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1959 “Kurt Schwitters 1887—1948,” Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, 1959; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, England; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, England; Herbert Temporary Art Gallery, Coventry, England; Glasgow University Print Room, Scotland, 1960 “Kurt Schwitters. 1887—1948,” Minami Gallery, Tokyo, 1960 “XXX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte. Sonderausstellung Kurt Schwitters,” La Biennale di Venezia, 1960 “Kurt Schwitters Sonderausstellung,” VI Bienal de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1961 “Fifty Collages by Schwitters,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1962 “Kurt MERZ Schwitters. 1887-1948, Retrospektivt/ Schwitters/Kurt Schwitters. 1887—1948/Kurt Schwitters. 1887-1948. Schilderijen, collages, sculpturen, tekeningen/ Schwitters. Mostra retrospettiva,” Konstsalongen Samlaren im Konstnärshuset, Stockholm; Statens Museum for Kunst und Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1962; Marlborough Fine Art, London; Wallraf-Richartz- Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1963; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan; Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, 1964 “Kurt Schwitters,” Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Pasadena Art Museum, California; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1962; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1963 “Kurt Schwitters in the Lake District,” Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England, 1964 “Kurt Schwitters. ‘Aphorismer,’ 1918—1947. Collage och relief, Konstsalongen Samlaren,” Stockholm, 1965 “Kurt Schwitters, Retrospective,” University of California at Los Angeles; Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; SOLO EXHIBITIONS 173
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