Database / Reproductions

Database Development
All works and documents belonging to the Foundation are in the process of being catalogued in a database, which is available at the Kurt Schwitters Archive in the Sprengel Museum, Hanover. The following inventory was recorded in 2009:

• all works by Kurt Schwitters
• approximately 2,500 photographic works by Ernst Schwitters; the digitalisation of large groups of works (black and white negatives and small format slides)
• all works from the Ernst Schwitters Collection and the works from Kurt Schwitters’s former Merz Collection
• the correspondence from Kurt Schwitters (418 letters by Kurt Schwitters; approx. 1,100 letters to Kurt Schwitters), and family correspondence.
• the literary manuscripts by Kurt Schwitters (approx. 350 documents from approx. 600)

Once the process of cataloguing is completed it is intended that the contents of the database be made available on the internet.


Reproductions
There is an ongoing process of creating reproducible images of items from the collection; these can be requested from the Kurt Schwitters Archive in the Sprengel Museum Hannover.



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