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Merzbau Houses, by Kurt Schwitters, Hanover, Germany (1919-1937)

Artist/Designer: Kurt Schwitter

Project Location: Hanover, Germany

Figure 1: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933 Photo: Wilhelm Redemann, 1933 © DACS 2007 ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: Wilhelm Redemann )
Figure 2: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933 Photo: Wilhelm Redemann, 1933 © DACS 2007 ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: Wilhelm Redemann )
Figure 3: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933,
Photo: Wilhelm Redemann, 1933 © DACS 2007 ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/08/kurt-schwitters-reconstructions-of-the-merzbau )
Figure 4: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933, 1981 Reconstruction by Peter Bissegger 1981–3
393 x 580 x 460 cm
Sprengel Museum Hannover © DACS 2007 ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: Sprengel Museum Hannover © DACS 2007 )
Figure 5: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933, 1981 Reconstruction by Peter Bissegger ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: Sprengel Museum Hannover © DACS 2007 )
Figure 6: Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau 1933, 1981 Reconstruction by Peter ( Source | Accessed : January 8, 2023 | Photographer: Sprengel Museum Hannover © DACS 2007 )

Style/Period(s):
Conceptualism, Dada

Primary Material(s):
Plaster, Paint

Function(s):
Exhibition, Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Merzbau House 1981 Reconstruction Tate museum 1981 | Accessed : January 8, 2023
'In Serach of Lost Art: Kurt Schwitter 'Merzbau houses' | Accessed : January 8, 2023
David Ireland, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA | Accessed : January 8, 2023
Wikipedia Kurt Schwitters | Accessed : January 8, 2023
Merzbau Germany Norway UK | Accessed : January 9, 2023
Schwitters Merzbau Houses | Accessed : January 9, 2023

Significant Date(s):
1919, 1937

Additional Information:
Anger, Jenny. “HOME.” In Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme, 185–232. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt20d881j.7.

Melchionne, Kevin. “Living in Glass Houses: Domesticity, Interior Decoration, and Environmental Aesthetics.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56, no. 2 (1998): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.2307/432257.

Foster, Hal. “An Archival Impulse.” October 110 (2004): 3–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3397555.

Lewallen, Constance. 500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015.

Building Address

Affiliated Designers

TAGS: Dadaism, Conceptual Art, Installation Art


Merzbau House ( 1919-1937) (Reconstruction by Peter Bissegger 1981–3)

Sprengel Museum Hannover © DACS 2007

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