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KThis exhibition showcases the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and his artist colleagues. 

Schwitters was one of the most distinctive and versatile artists of the first half of the 1900s, and the artistic tactics and strategies he developed have greatly influenced later generations. Schwitters is presented here in company with his contemporaries and artists he later inspired. 

The French term avant-garde, meaning vanguard, is used to refer to experimental artists or movements that seek to oppose or alter a tradition, and to artists who work across the established artistic disciplines and with innovative strategies such as manifestos, artists’ books and mail art. Historically, the avant-garde first signified major movements, such as Dada, Futurism and Surrealism, that emerged in the late 1800s and ended in the 1920s and 1930s, and then the radical period of innovation in art, literature and fashion that occurred at the end of the 1950s and 1960s, the so-called neo-avant-garde. For the avant-garde, social and political radicalism are closely linked to artistic innovation. More than being stylistic movements or "schools", the avant-garde is about different attitudes to life.