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‘My Merz Barn is better and more important than everything I have done up to now’. Kurt Schwitters (October 6th, 1947). Schwitters’ work in Germany and internationally was very well known before 1937, until the Nazis declared him a ‘degenerate’ artist and he had to leave his home in Hanover, his wife, his livelihood, his Merzbau.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937. Schwitters 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.
The MERZ Building took shape in the years 1920 to 1936 in Kurt Schwitters' apartment in Waldhausenstrasse 5A, Hanover. It began in his studio and grew rampantly over the years. By the time he left for Norway in 1936 it had taken over the adjacent rooms in his flat and extended to the flat two storeys further up, out onto the veranda and down ...
Kurt Schwitters was a German painter associated with the Dada movement, who worked in several genres and media, including 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.
En 1919 Kurt Schwitters (Hannover, 1887 - Kendal, 1948) adoptó el término “Merz” como la marca de su movimiento unipersonal con el que había comenzado a nombrar, organizar y promover sus diversos proyectos: literatura Merz, collages Merz, escultura y arquitectura Merz y, como una forma especial de Merz, el arte-i.
It was destroyed in a British air raid in October 1943 in Hannover. By 1937, when Schwitters left his hometown to follow his son into exile in Oslo, the Merzbau comprised a total of eight rooms in his house at 5 Waldhausenstraße in Hannover. Most of the surviving photographs seem to have been taken in the space of the ‘Merzbau proper ...
Following World War I, Schwitters, who was associated with the Dada movement, coined the term "Merz" to describe his enduring ambition to unify art and life. In this Merzbild, or Merz picture, Schwitters combined seemingly worthless debris—advertisements, newspaper scraps, diagrams—into an ordered composition set within a handmade frame.
