Page "Kurt Schwitters" Paragraph 44

Plagued by health problems in his remaining years, including temporary blindness in 1946 and a number of strokes, Schwitters died in Kendal, England, 8 January 1948, of a heart attack, and was buried in Ambleside.

His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.

The stone remains as a memorial even though his body was later disinterred and reburied in Hanover, Germany, the grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose.