Jaap blonk kurt schwitters biography

          Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in He studied at the Applied Arts School, the Art Academy and the Institute of Technology..


          Some words to Kurt Schwitters' URSONATE, by Jaap Blonk


          Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887.

          He studied at the Applied Arts School, the Art Academy and the Institute of Technology.

          Jaap Blonk (born , Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.

        1. Blonk, born in , is the Netherlands' performance poet par excellence.
        2. Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in He studied at the Applied Arts School, the Art Academy and the Institute of Technology.
        3. Kurt Schwitters was born on June 20, in Hanover, Germany.
        4. Jaap is a composer and vocal artist, best known for his interpretation of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate, one of the founding – and lasting –.

          5. 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, sound poems and plays, which he published in his own magazine, also called Merz.
          In 1919, after gaining a national reputation with the absurd love poem “An Anna Blume”, he made contact with fellow Dadaists such as Hans Arp and Raoul Hausmann.

          In 1937 Schwitters had to flee the Nazis, via Norway to England, where he died in 1948, sixty years of age.

          At the source of Schwitters’ Ursonate or “sonate in urlauten” ("primordial sonata" or “sonata in primordial sounds”) are two “Plakatgedichte” (“Poster Poems”) by Raoul Hausmann, which provided the sonata’s opening l