Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887 ... the other one being the Merzbau in his house in Hannover, destroyed in 1944. Both the Largo and the Scherzo have a centred (a-b-a) construction ...

Kurt Schwitters fled his home in Hanover, Germany, in 1937, and later settled in Ambleside. He was awarded his British citizenship papers on 7 January 1948, the day before he died, penniless ...