The Reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters'
MERZ Building

MERZ Building Reconstruction,
reconstruction at a scale of 1 :1
Executed 1980-83 in Locarno
Plaster, wood, glass, paint

Advisor:
Ernst Schwitters, Oslo und Teneriffe

Realization:
Peter Bissegger, Intragna (Switzerland)
Team:
Piero Maspoli, Stephan Lüthi, Albert Strick, Aurelio Siebert (photography),
Heinz Zollinger (lighting).


MERZ Building: travel copy, 1988
Wood, polyester, glass, plaster, paint
executed in Hanover und Klein-Elbe, near Hildesheim

Direction:
Peter Bissegger
Realization:
Wolfgang Schnurer, master carpenter, Klein-Elbe, and colleagues
Andreas Weissgerber: casts
Kurt Plume, Etze: organization

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