A Year With Kurt Schwitters 2021-2022 - Catalogue : Lulu.com : 9781471057038 : 1471057038 : 10 Sep 2022 : Award winning artist Anthony Padgett's book of over 50 artworks in response to International artist Kurt Schwitters who spent his final year in the Lake District. Schwitters is well know for his "Merz" collage art which used discarded items. Next year marks the 75th anniversary of Schwitters' death, in Kendal. Padgett explores this and also how Schwitters rose to fame through his Dada poetry, and how he was on the Romantic and expressionist side of Dadaism and Constructivist. This, coupled with his love of poetry and landscape painting, links him to the Lake District and the tradition of William Wordsworth. Anthony D Padgett worked at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, in the 1990s and whose sculptures of poets and artists like Wilfred Owen, Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso are sited in key locations in the UK and abroad. Said Anthony "I have really enjoyed creating artworks around Schwitte