George melly kurt schwitters biography

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20 June 1887
Curt Hermann Eduard Carl Julyus Schwitters is born to the shop owners Eduard and Henriette Schwitters (née Beckemeyer), in Rumannstrasse number 2 in Hanover.

1894
Starts school at the Modernes Realgymnasium I, Hanover.

1900
Travels with his father to the World Fair in Paris.

1901
Nervous disorder, first psychogenic non-epileptic seizure.

1905
Produces first pictures.

1908-1909
Studies at the School of Applied Art, Hanover. Taught by Richard Schlösser.

1909-1915
Studies at the Royal Saxon Academy of Art in Dresden on the recommendation of his teacher Richard Schlösser.

Summer semester 1909 to summer semester 1911: attends Carl Bantzer’s painting class; from winter semester 1912-13 onwards member of master class of Gotthardt Kuehl; additional tuition from Emmanuel Hegenbarth (animal painting), Hermann Dittrich (anatomical and nude studies), and from literary historian Oskar Walzel.

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