Für Frau Ida Bienert. (Merzzeichnung). 1926.
Collage. Paper on paper.
Signed and dated in lower left on the backing board (slightly faded). Verso titled "Für Frau Ida Bienert.". 9.2 x 7.2 cm (3.6 x 2.8 in), collage. Mount section: 12 x 10
[JS].

• Characteristic "Merz drawing" from the important avant-garde collection of Ida Bienert, Dresden.
• Bienert met Schwitters in Dresden in 1926 and they went on a trip together to the Erzgebirge and Zwickau in the fall, during which Schwitters made this collage for the young collector.
• In addition to a total of three "Merz drawings" by Kurt Schwitters, Bienert's avant-garde collection included important works by Cézanne, van Gogh, Klee, Kandinsky, Munch, Marc, Feininger and Nolde.
• Today, numerous works from the Bienert collection can be found in important museum collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, or the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

PROVENANCE: Ida Bienert, Dresden (acquired from the artist in 1926).
Carlo van den Bosch, Antwerp (1956).
Schrag Collection, Baden-Baden (until 1987, Ketterer Kunst, November 24, 1987, lot 1042).
Private collection Hanover (since 1987).

EXHIBITION: Hans Arp/Hans Bolliger, Kurt Schwitters, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, October 13 - November 11, 1956; Museé des Beaux-Arts, Liege, November 24 - December 16, 1956, cat. no. 68.

LITERATURE: Sprengel Museum Hannover (ed.), Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2: 1923-1936, ed. by Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003, no. 1454 (illustrated in black and white).
Ernst Nündel (ed.), Kurt Schwitters. Wir spielen, bis uns der Tod abholt. Briefe aus fünf Jahrzehnten, Frankfurt a. Main/Berlin/Wien 1974/75, p. 110.
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 122nd auction, November 24, 1987, lot 1042 (illustrated in black and white).
Cf. Will Grohmann, Die Sammlung Ida Bienert, Dresden, Potsdam 1933.
Cf. Heike Biedermann, Avantgarde als Lebensgefühl. Die Sammlerin Ida Bienert, in: Dorothee Wimmer (et al, ed.), Kunstsammlerinnen, Berlin 2009, pp. 99-113.

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