Schwitters’ Dada dwelling moves from island stable to Norwegian museum centrepiece

One of the few surviving Merzbau by the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters has a new home in Norway. The Romsdal Museum in Molde is due to unveil Schwitters’ three-dimensional collage, considered a forerunner of installation, on 9 February. “The hut’s existence has been known little internationally,” the art historian Karin Hellandsjo says.The Merzbau was transferred fr om the island of Hjerteoya, just south of the coastal city of Molde, where Schwitters gradually built