Merz

Merz may refer to:

  • Merz (surname)
  • Merz Apothecary, a historic German health care store in Chicago
  • Merz Pharma, an international health care company
  • Merz Peninsula, an irregular, ice-covered peninsula near Antarctica
  • Merz & McLellan, a British electrical engineering consultancy
  • Merz (Art style), Kurt Schwitters' synonym for his own way of Dada
  • Merzbau, name of an artwork by Kurt Schwitters
  • Merz (musician), a British electro-folk singer
  • Merz, Joachim, a German economist
  • Alfred Merz, Austrian geographer and oceanographer
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "Merz"
  • All pages with titles containing Merz
  • Mertz, a surname
  • MRZ (disambiguation)
  • Merz (Art style)

    Merz (art style) is a synonym for the more common expression and term Dada, and traces back to Kurt Schwitters.

    Origin

    The made-up word Merz, however, traces back to Kurt Schwitters, who planned a Dada section in Hanover. But not being invited to the First International Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920, Schwitters was on the look-out for a totally unique hat fitting only a single head"— his own.

    The very moment

    He found Merz by chance when creating a collage with the German word Kommerz (commerce). The result: a nonsensical‚ dadaistic’ word. Merz became Schwitters 's very synonym for his own way of Dada.

    The very reception

    Kurt Schwitters, father of installation art and a pioneer in fusing collage and abstraction—those two most transformative innovations of the 20th century art— influenced Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, the Fluxus movement and Joseph Beuys, too.

    See also

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • Dada
  • Fluxus
  • Joseph Beuys
  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Jasper Johns
  • Louise Nevelson
  • External links

  • See, for example, about Merz Picture 32 A, 1921
  • Merz (surname)

    Merz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aaron Merz (b. 1983), US football player
  • Albert Merz (?-1941), One of 3 German brothers (w August and Rudolf) who were imprisoned in Nazi Germany for refusing to bear arms. He was executed.
  • Alessia Merz (b. 1974), Italian television personality
  • Annette Merz (fl. 1990s), German protestant theologian, biblical scholar
  • Alfred Merz (1880–1925), Austrian-German oceanologist
  • Bruno Merz (b. 1976), New Zealand-born musician, composer, working in Netherlands
  • Charles Hesterman Merz (1874–1940), Pioneer of the National Grid UK
  • Charlie Merz (1888–1952) US racecar driver
  • Curt Merz (b. 1938), US football player
  • Friedrich Merz (b. 1955), German politician
  • Georg Merz (1793-1867), German optical instruments manufacturer
  • Hans-Rudolf Merz (b. 1942), President of Switzerland (2009)
  • HG Merz (b. 1947), German architect, museum designer
  • Ivan Merz (1896–1928), blessed, Croatian Catholic lay activist
  • Joachim Merz (b. 1948), German economist
  • Podcasts:

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    Moi Et Mon Camion

    by: Merz

    Went into town on a Thursday
    To the Sunny Bank Mill
    My car newly fixed I’d to pay them the bill
    When I pulled from a pocket my phone
    It fell into the road
    What with the water on the road
    Overhead electric cables
    From my shattered phone rose a corkscrewing rainbow
    Which drew up to the sky the names and numbers
    Of everyone I know
    Now every number is a satellite
    Each name a moon’s crater
    All the sky has come alive illumined with my data
    A powerless and lonely man is me
    Now I’ve nobody
    Sometimes I feel
    It’s just within my grasp
    The truth of things and questions often asked
    But I’m falling pointing
    Sometimes I feel
    It’s just within my grasp
    I’m on to something, something that could last
    But I’m falling pointing
    Sometimes I feel
    It’s just within my grasp
    A signal loud and clear, a blinding flash
    Leaves me falling pointing
    I feel
    It’s just within my grasp
    The veils to faint perception lift at last
    I’m falling pointing
    Went for a walk on the Sunday
    To the old Scapegoat Hill
    No one to accompany me I’m lost in thought still
    I dozed off in a field and while I dream
    Satellites watch me.




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