“Since the loss of the Merzbau [his former studio in Hannover, which was a big sculpture (5 x 4 x 4,5 meters) I did a lot of small sculptures..”

— Kurt Schwitters

Source: 1940s, I is Style (2000), p. 48 : in a letter to Edgar Kaufmann, 16 July 1946

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German artist 1887–1948

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