Merzbild 1A (The Psychiatrist)
Kurt Schwitters · 1919
Why it's great
A side view of a face made from bits of paper, tickets, buttons and paint, in an early Merz collage by Kurt Schwitters in 1919. He used rubbish that he found on the street, called his art Merz, and made it into beauty.
Where to see it
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Kurt Schwitters was a German artist born in Hanover in 1887. He made collages and sculptures from scraps and trash that he called Merz, and also wrote poems and designed his own Merz Building. He left Germany when the Nazis came to power, lived in Norway and then in England, and died in Ambleside in 1948.
