Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887. Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz . He made paintings, collages and objects; he wrote poems ...

The Schwitters scandal was pure DADA! While he was alive, Schwitters provoked the art world with his one-man Dada movement Merz, which united painting, sculpture, architecture and literature in ...

Vladimir Tatlin called them Counter-Reliefs, and Kurt Schwitters used the mysterious term Merz. The technique of assemblage was popular among Cubists, Dadaists, and Pop Artists. Assemblage is a ...

Kurt Schwitters fled his home in Hanover, Germany, in 1937, and later settled in Ambleside. He was awarded his British citizenship papers on 7 January 1948, the day before he died, penniless ...

Brianna McCarthy makes colourful pictures of faces using collage. And Kurt Schwitters made collages out ofthings other people had thrown away. Right, I'm going to make my own collage. To start ...