Schwitters, Kurt

8vo (190 x 130mm.), original printed wrappers, with an invitation to a Schwitters exhibition at Blomqvist Kunsthandel [Oslo] dated 6.2.1934 loosely inserted, wrappers detached, sewing becoming loose, backstrip torn

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WITH A SKETCH BY SCHWITTERS ON THE FLYLEAF, comprising the face of a woman with the word "dada", addressed "für Mulle, Djupvandshütta [Djupvasshytta] den 23.7.1933, Kurt Schwitters". Schwitters and his family holidayed each year in this Norwegian mountain resort, which became the subject of numerous paintings by him, particularly after his flight from the Nazis in 1937 when he took refuge in Norway.

Anna Blume was first published in Der Sturm in August 1919, and the first separate edition was printed in Hannover that year, with a sketch by Schwitters printed on the wrappers. This is a reprint from a few years later, in smaller format with fewer verses, one of the 11,000-13,000 copies.