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...Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club announced its officers for 1965 yesterday. Chosen were: President, David R. LaRoche '66, of Quincy House and Franklin, New Hampshire; First Vice-President, Michael R. Merz, '67, of Kirkland House and Dayton, Ohio; Second Vice-President, Geza P. Serenyi '66, of Dunster House and Boston; Secretary, Margaret P. Kortiander '66, of Jordan J and Pasadena, California; and Treasurer, Mary T. Stillman '67 of Henry House and New York City...
KURT SCHWITTERS-Chalette, 1100 Madison Ave. at 82nd St. Schwitters dabbled in Dada before embracing an equally nutty style that he labeled Merz. This retrospective of his Merz-drenched collages suggests that yesterday's Dada is today's Pop. Through...
...with the sardonic Paul Klee, then with the Dadaists and such pioneer abstract painters as Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz," he wrote later, "stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation...
Between 1923 and 1932 Schwitters published Merz magazine, in which he printed his own poems, views on art and passionate vindications of his use of rubbish in collages. As his movement flourished, he built a Merzbau in Hannover, where disciples could touch a rag that Schwitters asserted was Goethe's stocking, and a bottle of yellow liquid that he called the "urine of the Master." When Adolf Hitler came along, Schwitters' day in Germany was over. The Führer did not approve. In 1935 Schwitters fled Germany-first to Norway, then to England, where he died...
Other officers elected include Nancy L. Merz '60, of Comstock Hall and Maysville, Ky., vice-president; Marjory P. Zoet '61, of Whitman Hall and Bellingham, Wash., secretary; Christina J. Beurling '61, of Comstock Hall and Princeton. N.J., treasurer; and Patricia E. Gerald '61, of Cabot Hall and Minneapolis, Minn., NSA delegate...