MERZbau reconstruction

MERZBAU reconstruction at Berkeley Art Museum 7/2011. Video and timelapse by Mona Caron. Music: Béla Bartok, Six Rumanian Folk Dances - Roumanian Polka; and June De Toth, Gnossiennes n.4 by Erik Satie. - The legendary Hanover MERZbau was created by Dada/Constructivist artist Kurt Schwitters in his apartment in Hanover, Germany in 1931-33, and was destroyed in 1943 during an allied air raid. In 1981-83 Peter Bissegger reconstructed the MERZbau through extensive calculations and research, and with the hel