‘Fräulein Huth’ and the red seaweed: Consolidation of a collage by Kurt Schwitters with JunFunori®

Abstract

z Huthbild may be translated as 'Hat picture'. MERZ comes from a snippet of the title 'Kommerzund Privatbank', meaning Commerce and Private Bank, and for Schwitters meant creating relationships in his pictures, for assembling fragments of the world and from life. Schwitters named a simple and flat collage MERZzeichnung (MERZdrawing) and the threedimensional assemblage of objects MERZbild (MERZpicture). See Buchner, J., and N. Nobis, Kurt Schzuitters 1887-1948. 2nd ed. (Hannover: Propylaen; Sprengel Museum, 1987).