Kurt Schwitters

Legacy

Brian Eno sampled Schwitters' recording of Ursonate for the "Kurt's Rejoinder" track on his 1977 album, Before and after Science.
Japanese musician Merzbow took his name from Schwitters.
A fictionalised account of Schwitters time in London is the subject of an opera by Michael Nyman and Michael Hastings, Man and Boy: Dada.
The German hip-hop band Freundeskreis quoted from his poem "An Anna Blume" in their hit single "ANNA".
The krautrock band Faust have a song entitled "Dr. Schwitters snippet".
Billy Childish made a short film on Schwitters life, titled "The Man with Wheels", (1980, directed by Eugean Doyan).
Chumbawamba include a decidedly energetic take on Ursonate in their song "Ratatatay", featured on the album ABCDEFG. The song is about George Melly and in particular his story of spontaneously reciting Ursonate, in order to scare off a pair of robbers who confronted him one evening in Manchester.
Contemporary artists Jutta Koether, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eline McGeorge and Karl Holmqvist were commissioned to make new installation works in 2009 in response to Kurt Schiwtters as part of the Senses exhibition which took place in Alesund, Norway (2009) and at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2010).