Abstract
Kurt Schwitters (born June 20, 1887 in Hannover, † January 8, 1948 in Kendal, Cumbria, England) was a multitalented German artist. Schwitters´ life was marked by various health problems that never have been discussed in all their biographical and medical aspects according to contemporary medical knowledge. The fourteen-year-old Schwitters had his first seizure after a traumatic experience. When he was about 18 or 19, the seizures reached a climax, and he had several fits per day. Then they suddenly eased and became more and more infrequent, until, in the last 10 years of his life, he only had some five fits altogether. Today this seizure disorder could be classified as psychogenic non- epileptic seizures rather than true epilepsy as concluded in academic studies so far. This major impairment of his health in his adolescence evidently motivated Schwitters to become an artist.
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