European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gallery Austria Innsbruck crib shows in conjunction with International creche Congress austrian creches  nov. 29-dec. Is fasting creches in Tirol Volks museum nov. 29- an. 19. Christmas in tyrolean Art Landes museum Ferdinand cum nov. 29-Jan. 6. Denmark aarhus Graffiti from the Berlin Wall aarhus Art museum nov. 22-dec. 31. Silk Eborg Emit Nolde graphics silk Eborg Art museum until nov. 30. France Paris Victor Hugo s drawings Victor Hugo s House place Des Vosges until dec. 31. Germany Berlin Toller Cranston Oil paintings and drawings Weiss he Galerie until dec. 24. Munich Toulouse Lautrec Neue Pina Kotchek Art gallery Bare Strasse 29, through dec. 1. Open 9 a.m.-4 30, closed monday. Entry fee 6 Marks free sunday. Calendar Austria world creche Congress Innsbruck nov. 28 dec. 2. Denmark annual Christmas exhibitor in the old town aarhus december. France St. Nicholas Day Nancy dec. �-7. Flea Market Metz dec. 7 and 21. Germany ski fair sponsored by Mainz itt outdoor recreation Village inn at Martin Luther King Village 10 a.m.-4 . Nov. 23. Arts and crafts Market Ulm nov. 30-dec. 1. A Winter tale Rothenburg of Der Tauber nov. 30 an. 1. Festivities include the Christmas Market until dec. 22. There will be coach rides for children torchlight processions puppet shows and concerts great Britain annual victorian Street fair Bungay dec. 6. National cat club show Olympia London dec. 7. Italy Advent concert Annichen nov. 30. Luxembourg exhibition of Model railway Waller Dange nov. 23 24. The Netherlands thanksgiving for american Community pilgrims Church in Del shaven near Rotterdam nov. 28. Spain handicrafts fair Seville dec. 7-15. Sweden Nobel prize ceremony Stockholm dec. 10. Switzerland International cat show Basel at St. Jakob indoor stadium dec. 7-8. Turkey International St. Nicholas festival Deere dec. 5-7. Frankfurt Art treasures from Africa Stone sculpture from Zimbabwe sculpture gallery at the zoological Garden until dec. 8. Munich Carl Spitz Weg exhibition Haus Der Kunst and Schack Galerie nov. 23-feb. 2. Berlin Antiqua 85, mess Halle 18, below the Funk urm nov. 23-27. Toys and sculpture from the past Silver porcelain antique jewelry old weapons and More will be for Sale. Great Britain Oxford the architecture of Adolf Loos museum of modern Art until dec. 1. The show then moves to the Institute of contemporary arts London dec. 12-Jan. 21 Mappin Art gallery Sheffield feb. 1-March 9 and third Eye Center Glasgow March 29-apr8 27.i oos was a Friend of Painter Kokoschka and composer Schoenberg and like them sought new forms to match the new age. London Faberge Queen s gallery Buckingham Palace Road until feb. 22. Greenwich London time at sea old Royal Observatory until dec. 31. The exhibition Marks the 250th anniversary of the first chronometer a timekeeper designed for use at sea. London shots of style great fashion photographs chosen by David Bailey Victoria and Albert museum until Jan. 19. London the Solomon family of painters Jeffrye museum until Jan. 5. London Handel a Celebration of his life and times National portrait gallery until feb. 23. Eastbourne Guild of Sussex craftsmen Towner Art gallery until dec. 8. Luxembourg Luxembourg the self portrait in Luxembourg painting until nov. 30. The Netherlands Amsterdam Spanish artists of the 17th Century Rijk museum until Jan. 26. The exhibition is loaned from Madrid s Prado and includes Al Greco Ribera Murillo Zurbaran and Velasquez. Sweden Stockholm islam Art culture museum of National antiquities until december. Switzerland Basel Strasbourg Fayen Ces from the collection of the historical museum Barfuss Kirche until dec. 10. One Man s trash is now the world s treasure by Graham Heathcote associated press Kurt sch Witters was the great master of collage creating pictures from discarded bits of paper Candy wrappings bus tickets string Cotton and Wool. He found his materials in the trash and died in near poverty in England in 1948. Now his works Cost thousands of dollars and he is being celebrated by London s tale gallery. An exhibition of 214 of his collages and sculpture expanded from a show at new York s museum of modern Art opened nov. ?. At the Tate and runs through Jan. 5. It then goes to West Germany s Sprengel museum in Hannover where the artist was born in 1867. One of the works in the Schwitters exhibit Bluebird was recently withdrawn after his son Ernst told the gallery the work was a fake and had never been created by his father. Pablo Picasso started collage in 1912 when he stuck a piece of oilcloth on his painting called still life with chair caning and framed the picture in rope. The technique was followed by Henri Matisse Joan Miro Georges iraqi a and others. Schwitters took the idea further than All of them. He became obsessed with producing collages and even changed his name because of the technique. He had chopped one syllable from the phrase Kommers und Priva Bank commercial and private Bank from a piece of the German Bank s note paper so that Only Merz showed. He liked it so much that he began signing himself Kurt Merz Schwitters and went on to produce what he called Merz collages Merz poetry a Merz Magazine and even a Merz building a junk construction that filled his Home in Hannover and so annoyed the landlord that he was asked to leave. Schwitters said he transformed materials by composing them into pictures painting Over Box tops playing cards newspaper clippings wire netting grease proof paper and bits of Wood and assembling these incompatible things into a harmonious whole. He stooped into gutters raided wastepaper baskets and scavenged or bits of linoleum and even worn out shoe soles for items to paste into his pictures. However he earned a living by painting straightforward landscapes and portraits. Schwitters did t like the nazis and they called him a dangerous madman. John Elderfield director of the department of drawings at the museum of modern Art in new York and who organized the exhibition said that Schwitters once had to judge a nazi approved official Art show after Adolf Hitler came to Power in 1933. There were paintings of Hitler and propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels there and Schwitters remarked shall we hang them or stand them against the Wall " Elderfield said in an interview at the tale s preview. The nazis included Schwitters Art in their enter tote Kunst degenerate Art exhibition of 1937, a landmark in the history of intellectual persecution. That was the signal for him to flee from Germany. He went to Norway and when the germans invaded there in 1940, he moved on to England. Schwitters Art was t widely admired in his lifetime except by other artists. He sold his pictures for a few dollars or gave them away for favors. He sent some Small collages to a German Friend who sent him $24 a month in his last years. Schwitter Riith on Jan. A 1948, in Ambleside in Northwest England s Lake District and is buried there. In the past 12 months two Small works by him were auctioned in new York one for $20,000 and another for almost $24,000. Some people find Schwitters a bit difficult to take but that s the Case with most new Art " said Elderfield. The collages Are extremely challenging. They looked ugly when people saw them for the first time. Gradually Over the years they became accepted. He also developed abstract poetry using sounds in a musical Way reciting the alphabet backwards or constantly repeating one letter. People would go to his readings and when he started they would get up in a fury. Then they would sit Down to hear a bit More and at the end they would be applauding. He was really a very ebullient an funny Man. He had a very hard time and i believe he had to sell his stamp collection when he was moving around a exile Elderfield continued yet a typical work by him will now fetch around $30 000 and a very Large one could go up to $1  i 72 stripes Magazine november 21,1985