Construction for Noble Ladies (1919) by Kurt Schwitters is a key work in the history of modern art, particularly within the context of Dada and the rise of collage and assemblage techniques in the early 20th century. Schwitters, a German artist, is most famous for pioneering a wholly unique, visual idiom he called Merz — a term he used for the rest of his life to describe the collage and assembler works he made with scavenged and discarded materials — essentially elevating trash into aesthetic form.
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