Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany.

Kurt Schwitters was born onJune 1887, at No.2 Rumannstrae, Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette . His parents were proprietors of a ladies clothes shop. They sold the business in 1898, using the money to buy five properties in Hanover which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitters life in Germany. In 1901 the family moved to Waldstrae 5, future site of the Merzbau. The same year, Schwitters suffered his first epileptic seizure, a condition that would exempt him from military service in World War I until the last stages of the conflict, when conscription began to be applied to a far wider section of the population.

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