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Composition with Head in Profile
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Schwitters engaged in many Dadaist experiments in the years following the First World War. This lithograph comes from that time. Its composition, full of disparate elements, resembles a collage, a technique popular with Dada artists. After the atrocious events of the war, they were extremely keen to return to their childlike creativity. The so-called civilized world had, after all, caused the war, or so they reasoned.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineKomposition mit Kopf im Profil (Compositie met hoofd in profiel). 1921. Kurt Schwitters. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
