Although the show includes a number of larger assemblages incorporating ... of documentary material including a heartbreaking letter in which Schwitters and other internees beg Kenneth Clark ...

No sooner had the First World War ended than the German painter Kurt Schwitters began to make collages out of ‘old train tickets, pieces of driftwood, cloakroom numbers, wire or wheel parts, buttons ...

“I am a painter and I nail my pictures together,” Kurt Schwitters said to fellow artist ... one late work of cut-up French airmail envelopes and letters suggests how much he likely missed ...

Painter, sculptor, typographer and writer, Schwitters once said in a letter dated August 1940 that "art cannot live behind barbed wire". However, in the Isle of Man he was given an attic studio ...

Mark Lawson talks to Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams as they appear in Pinter's Old Times, plus the art of Kurt Schwitters, and how ideas about offensive language change. Show more With Mark ...