Komposition mit Kopf im Profil (Composition with Head in Profile), Kurt Schwitters, 1921

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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.