FO199200003000_981201_001.jpg, 1998/12/01撮影, Public Domain

Merz-drawing 52, Beauty Culture

Title	Merz-drawing 52, Beauty Culture
Artist	クルト・シュヴィッタース　Kurt SCHWITTERS
Date	1920
Medium	collage on paper, artist's mount
Dimensions	15.5×10.8
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	FO199200003000
Summary	The Dada movement was a successor to Italian Futurism which took place against an urban backdrop during and after the First World War. It was a dramatic art movement which aimed at the direct intoxication of the senses. Schwitters continued to make Merz works throughout his life, almost like a diary. In them, he attempted to make multi-faceted works of art with a bold application of the technique of collage which was invented by Picasso and Braque during the Synthetic phase of Cubism. This collage is built around a printed picture of two women fixing their hair. Other bits of printed matter, including a Goloise tobacco package and street car tickets, are added and pieces of colored paper are arranged around the right side of the central scene. Each element of the composition has clearly representational content. The quasi-oriental floral pattern pasted on the right side is related to the picture of the women, adding an elegant touch to the work.

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Native place	Hanover, DEU
Birth	1887
Dead place	Ambleside, GBR
Died	1948
Biography	Schwitters was born in Hannover, Germany. He was a leader of the Hannover Dada movement. His activities extended to architecture and poetry as well as painting and were aimed at a general liberation of art from traditional materials. After the First World War, in 1919, he made his first Merz painting, a collage of discarded odds and ends on canvas. He worked for a number of years on a Merzbau, a room constructed of found objects, in his house in Hannover until he fled to Norway in 1937. In 1922 he participated in the Dada and Constructivist conference in Weimar and afterward worked to spread Dada in the Netherlands. He moved first to Norway in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution and then moved on to England where he continued making his Merz constructions. His second Merzbau in Norway was left unfinished. He started a third at his home in the country village of Ambleside in England but died before he could finish it.

Merz-drawing 52, Beauty Culture

Kurt SCHWITTERS