Kurt Schwitters (born 1887- died 1948) was a German artist. He worked in many different genres and medias, including; Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, Poetry, Sound Art, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, typography and what came to be known as Installation Art. However he was most famous for his collages, called 'Merz' pictures. Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism, he created his own form of Dada in 1918 in Hanover.
He called this genre 'Merz', using rubbish material such as labels, bus tickets and bits of broken wood.
'Merz' is a nonsense word invented by Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works based on scavenged scrap materials.
Schwitters made large numbers of collages in this media, and is said to have extracted the word 'Merz' from 'Commerz Bank' which appeared on a piece of paper used in one of his collages.
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