His book of poetry The Merzbook was inspired by the life and work of Kurt Schwitters, and was the basis for a dramatic production, The Cabbage of Paradise.
Kurt Schwitters, (1887–1948) German painter and practitioner of Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism
John Ruskin attempted to set up a lace making industry here and artist Kurt Schwitters was a resident of nearby Chapel Stile, where one of his Merzbarn project was created.
Griffiths' writing was influenced by the European avant-garde movement, especially that of Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.
Kurt Vonnegut | Kurt Weill | Kurt Russell | Kurt Masur | Kurt Angle | Kurt Koffka | Kurt Gödel | Kurt Elling | Kurt Schwitters | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Kurt Hahn | Kurt Wallander | Kurt Tucholsky | Kurt Sanderling | Kurt Kren | Kurt Busiek | Kurt Lewin | Kurt Jooss | Kurt Andersen | Kurt Warner | Kurt Squire | Kurt Schmoke | Kurt Gerstein | Kurt Busch | Kurt Browning | Kurt Wiese | Kurt Waldheim | Kurt Vile | Kurt Thomas | Kurt St. Thomas |
A non-prescriptive group of artists were involved, whose ideals and practices varied widely: Albert Gleizes, František Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, Marlow Moss, Naum Gabo,Alberto Magnelli, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Théo Kerg, Taro Okamoto, Paule Vézelay, Hans Erni, Bart van der Leck, Leon Tutundjian and John Wardell Power.
This exhibition also contained In Company, 2008—created especially to be shown alongside Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn—and her painting The Visit—based upon Ian Fleming’s The Garden of Gethsemane, 1931, from the Hatton’s Historic collection.
The history of "poetic objects" may be traced back to the Dada productions of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, and to the surrealistic boxes of Joseph Cornell (among others), as well as Fluxus objects and editions, but an even older tradition of charms, talismans, Gnostic gems, seals, and fetishistic objects exists.
Works by German and Austrian Expressionists August Macke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky, Max Beckmann, and Emil Nolde, along with early modern European and American masters such as Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Kurt Schwitters, are in the museum’s collection.
In Berlin she was exposed to the cultural upheaval of those years: she attended the premiere of The Rite of Spring of Stravinsky, The Threepenny Opera of Bertolt Brecht, and was drawn to Dadaism, the Bauhaus movement and the painter Kurt Schwitters.
While she was the youngest member of the Werkbund in 1928, Kurt Schwitters introduced her to the Bauhaus architect Robert Michels in Frankfurt.