Peter Fischli & David Weiss aka Fischli/Weiss

The next Artists You Need To Know are Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Known as Fischli/Weiss, they are two Swiss artists that began a collaboration in 1979 and continued until Weiss’ death in 2012. Their works were irreverent with a dark humour that often had...

Kurt Schwitters

The next Artist You Need To Know is Kurt Schwitters (1887 – 1948). Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist but he spent the latter part of his life in exile from his country due to the rise of fascism in Germany. The latter labelled him as a...

Jean Tinguely

The next Artist You Need To Know is Jean Tinguely (1925 – 1991). Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor : his kinetic sculptural machines – which he called Métamatics – are his most renowned works and are seen as a continuation of the Dada aesthetic (‘I am an...

Hannah Höch

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978). Höch is arguably one of the best known of the German Dada artists of the early twentieth century, and specifically the Weimar period (1919–1933) in Germany. She developed the process of photomontage...