The Merzbau is a work of art whose author is Kurt Schwitters, consistent in a livable construction of variable size made up of found objects. It is the ancestor of what one will call later of the installations.
History of work
The original name that it had given to this construction was Cathédrale of erotic misery whose contents were as shocking for the time as all that the radical artists of today could produce. The term Merz comes from a paper fragment where was registers the German word Kommerz , of Kommerz Bank ; Bau means construction in German.
Schwitters worked of 1923 to 1936 on the Merzbau form which reaches the size of eight parts in its house of Hanover. The arrival of the Nazi S with the capacity in Germany in 1933 constrained Schwitters with the exile in Norway. It started there the construction of new Merzbau in the surroundings of Oslo but unfinished following the invasion country left it and whose remainders burned in 1951. He flees again, this time towards the Great Britain where he was interned until 1941 as a German. In 1945, in spite of a fragile health, it off took again the construction of a new work known under the name of Merz barn , supported by the Museum Modern Art of New York. With its death, it had finished one wall. One can see today at the University of Newcastle.
No other Merzbau would have survived put besides some elements of that established in Norway and which was filmed in 1999 by Guy-Marc Hinant. Sprengel Museum of Hanover reconstituted one of these works which comprises at least four of the parts which were in the house of the author.
See too
External bonds
- Merzbau in Hatton Gallery
- Reconstitution of Merzbau of 1933 and its modeling in 1999 by Zvonimir Bakotin
- Biography of Schwitters by Gwendolen Freundel Webster
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