Dear Sophie -
KURT SCHWITTERS was a typographer, a poet and collage artist transforming random bits of found objects into new meanings. His Merzbau construct may well be the first installation art.
We have to give thanks to all of these brilliant German artists whose lives were disrupted by politics and war. They came to our shores having to create new lives and communities as refugees. The culture and erudition they brought to America was formidable. They changed and informed our physical and intellectual landscape.
With love,
Mom
