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Ultima Thule : Kurt Schwitters and Norway
- Title
- Ultima Thule : Kurt Schwitters and Norway / Karin Hellandsjø.
- Author
- Hellandsjø, Karin
- Publication
- Oslo : Orfeus, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- 215 pages, XL pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 30 cm
- Summary
- Kurt Schwitters was in the early 1930s considered entartet by Hitler. He lived in exile in Norway , a country he had visited as a tourist several times . He stayed until the Germans invaded Norway in 1940. He lived in Lysaker and during the summers on Hjertøya outside Molde. Here he built his Merz - huts and worked with collages and assemblages . Karin Hellandsjø has done research for many years on this unique artist's life and work in Norway . The book also presents several of Schwitters texts , some of which have never been published. The book is richly illustrated.
- Alternative Title
- Kurt Schwitters and Norway
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Translation: German to Norwegian: Per Quale; English to Norwegian: Karin Hellandsjø; Norwegian and German to English: John Irons.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-212) and index.
- Call Number
- JQG 17-867
- ISBN
- 9788293140405
- 8293140402
- LCCN
- 2017378621
- OCLC
- 958456308
- Author
- Hellandsjø, Karin, author.
- Title
- Ultima Thule : Kurt Schwitters and Norway / Karin Hellandsjø.
- Publisher
- Oslo : Orfeus, 2016.
- Edition
- 1. edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-212) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Spine Title
- Kurt Schwitters and Norway
- Research Call Number
- JQG 17-867