Kurt Schwitters

After the end of the First World War Schwitters declared the syllable "Merz" to be a word mark for his one-man movement and thereby propagated his wide-ranging creative work in almost all areas of art, literature and typography. The expression stands for a concept of the greatest possible unreservedness and artistic freedom in the choice of forms of expression. In Schwitters’s compositions, apparently worthless things are resurrected and open up rich fields of association in new interactions. The publication draws on the wealth of material to be found in the artist’s estate, which is the subject of recent research.