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Kurt Schwitters (Hanover, June 20, 1887 - Kendal, Cumbria, January 8, 1948) was a German artist. When Nazi Germany invaded Norway, after a short period of internment by Norwegian authorities on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Leith, Scotland with his son and daughter-in-law on the patrol vessel Fridtjof Nansen between June 8 and 18, 1940. By now officially an enemy alien, he was moved between various internment camps in Scotland and England before arriving on 17 July 1940 in Hutchinson Camp in the Isle of Man. After obtaining his freedom Schwitters moved to London, hoping to make good on the contacts that he had built up over his period of internment. Schwitters first visited the Lake District on holiday with Edith Thomas in September 1942. He moved there permanently on June 26, 1945, to 2 Gale Crescent, Ambleside. However, after another stroke in February of the following year and further illness, he and Edith moved to a more easily accessible house at 4 Millans Park.
[Sotheby’s, London - Collage on paper on board, image size, 15.5 x 12.8 cm]