Walking Talk: Kurt Schwitters in Ambleside with Anthony Padgett

Award winning sculptor Anthony D Padgett is hosting a walk and talk based around Kurt Schwitters' Ambleside, the Armitt Museum (which holds original Schwitters' works and Padgett's bust of Schwitters), Schwitters' gravestone and a couple of his favourite pubs.

About the artists
Kurt Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) spent the last few years of his life in Ambleside. He was a German artist, who became famous for his poem Anna Blume, worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called "Merz Pictures".

Padgett's art practice looks at the history of art and literature. It includes spending a year being inspired to create artworks and texts around the lives of famous artists and poets. He then creates sculptures of those figures and sites these internationally. His subjects include Schwitters, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Wilfred Owen and Humbert Wolfe.

You may also like the following events from The Armitt : Museum, Gallery, Library:

• Next month, 9th July, 02:30 pm, The Armitt: Heritage Walks 2025 in Keswick
• Next month, 13th July, 12:00 pm, Cyanotype Workshop with Chris Routledge in Keswick
• Next month, 22nd July, 10:00 am, Linescape Art and the influence of Wainwright with Mark Richards in Keswick

Also check out other Arts events in Keswick, Literary Art events in Keswick, Fine Arts events in Keswick.