Kurt Schwitter Episode #12: Merz Bau

Kurt Schwitter is ultimately an awe-inspiring artist from many disciplines, including Post Impressionism, Dada, Surrealism, poetry, and performance art from the 20th century. However, the work he created using sculptured spaces truly epitomizes and transfixes the human psyche into believing it is in an alternate reality. One of his most recognized works, Merz, was titled this, as in German it is the later part of the word Commerce he had seen in a magazine. This piece has been called a ...