Schwitters published a periodical, also called Merz, between 1923 – 32, in which each issue was devoted to a central theme.

) Merz 1923 – 32.

He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.

He was to use the term Merz for the rest of his career.

Schwitters performed the piece regularly, developing and extending it, until finally publishing his notations for the recital in the last Merz periodical, 1932.

In August 2009 Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz visited Tripoli and issued a public apology to Libya for the arrest of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife.

In the United States, Xeomin ( manufactured in Germany by Merz ) is available for both therapeutic and cosmetic use.

The firm's successor, Merz und Mahler, made a telescope for the New Berlin Observatory, which confirmed the existence of the major planet Neptune.

Israeli officials, angered by a meeting between Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz and the Iranian president, recalled its ambassador to Switzerland, Ilan Elgar " for consultations " amid ongoing controversy over an anti-racism conference being held in Geneva.

Since the early 1980s, Japan has produced a significant output of characteristically harsh bands, sometimes referred to under the portmanteau Japanoise, with perhaps the most well known being Merzbow ( pseudonym for the Japanese noise artist Masami Akita who himself was inspired by the Dada artist Kurt Schwitters's Merz art project of psychological collage ).

One month later, on August 6, 2010, Hans-Rudolf Merz also announced his resignation for October.

** Leone d ' Oro for the Best Artist of the international exhibition: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Marisa Merz ( Italy ), and Pierre Huyghe ( France )

On 6 August 2010 Merz announced his resignation for October 2010.

On 10 December 2008, as the member of the Federal Council that hasn't been its president for the longest time, Merz was elected President of the Confederation for 2009.

Merz convulsed with laughter when reading the dense bureaucratic language of the reply drafted for him by customs officials.

An Easy-to-Understand Method for Everyone of How To Learn Madness ) was published in 1922 with a markedly cleaner cover in a constructivist style, and this was followed by a series of periodicals, still called Merz, which continued to publish Schwitters ' work, within the context of the emerging International Modernism.

Clay was responsible for commuting the death sentences, among many others, for convicted Nazi war criminals Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz, to only five years imprisonment ( time served ).

Metz and Merz were commanders of the infamous Berga, Thuringia slave labor camp in which 350 U. S. soldiers were beaten, tortured, starved, and forced to work for the German government during World War II.

Planning for electrification was started by Victorian Railways chairman Thomas James Tait, who engaged English engineer Charles Hesterman Merz to deliver a report on the electrification of the Melbourne suburban network.

Memantine was first synthesized and patented by Eli Lilly and Company in 1968 ( as cited in the Merck Index ), and then developed by Merz in collaboration with Neurobiological Technologies, Inc. and Children's Hospital, Boston / Harvard Medical School, and then licensed to Forest for the U. S. and Lundbeck for selected European and international markets.

Organisations include Tatura Milk Industries, Goulburn-Murray Water's corporate headquarters, Sinclair Knight Merz, Department of Primary Industries ( Victoria ), as well as major regional processing plants for multinational corporations such as Unilever and Snow Brand Milk Products.

In Germany the small Christadelphian community founded by Albert Maier went underground from 1940 – 1945, and a leading brother, Albert Merz, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and later executed.

What I had learned at the academy was of no use to me and the useful new ideas were still unready .... Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments ; and this is Merz.

The last edition, Merz 24, 1932, was a complete transcription of the final draft of the Ursonate, with typography by Jan Tschichold.

Whilst there, he staged regular Merz recitals, including a performance of Silence, his first poem in English, but was apparently seen as a somewhat pathetic irrelevant figure by other artists at the camp.

She encouraged Schwitters to ' Merz ' this ephemera, the result of which was a sequence of proto-pop art pictures such as For Käte, 1947.

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

Theissen and Merz argue the genre of a collection of sayings was one of the earliest forms in which material about Jesus was handed down.

It was later reported that the crew — Lieutenants George Pinnock Merz ( a medical doctor and formerly of the Melbourne University Rifles ) and W. W. A.

Merz was a Scout, and visited the National Jamboree of Switzerland in July 2008.

Merz was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 10 December 2003.

On 20 September 2008, whilst in Eastern Switzerland, Merz was rushed to hospital, having suffered from a heart attack.

Many of these designs, as well as test prints and proof sheets, were to crop up in contemporary Merz pictures.

In 2007, the exhibition " Selections from The LeWitt Collection " at the Weatherspoon Art Museum assembled approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, among them works by Andre, Alyce Acock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jan Dibbets, Jackie Ferrara, Gilbert and George, Alex Katz, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Mario Merz, Shirin Neshat, Pat Steir, and many other artists.

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

This focuses on Arte Povera, with work by artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Kasimir Malevich, Ana Mendieta, Mario Merz and Jenny Holzer.

The building is designed by Melbourned based Sinclair Knights Merz Architects and Engineers in partnership with UK Based Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

It is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Tom Darden at NIEHS, Ken Merz at Florida, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.

Characters playing Simon of Cyrene appear in the silent The King of Kings ( 1927, played by William Boyd ) King of Kings ( 1961, played by Rafael Luis Calvo ) The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965, played by Sidney Poitier ) and The Passion of the Christ ( 2004, played by Jarreth J. Merz ).

Sinus Studio in Bern, and engineers Eric Merz and Peter McTaggart, became the center of innovation by the mid-1970s, however.

* Neoclassico, C. di R. Masiero, ; ua Sol LeWitt, G. Merz, Ann u Patrick Poirier ; ua James Stirling, Mario Campi, Aldo Rossi, Hans Robert Hiegel, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, Venice: Marsillo Editori ISBN 88-317-5384-3

Hans Josephsohn und Marisa Merz, Galerie Buchmann, Lugano, Switzerland