Which Dada artist created the installation Merzbau?

The Dada artist who created the installation Merzbau was Kurt Schwitters.

Schwitters began Merzbau in his Hanover home during the 1920s, gradually transforming rooms into an immersive environment of protruding forms, columns, niches, and accumulated materials. Rather than treating art as a separate object on a wall, he incorporated fragments and constructions into the architecture itself.

The title connects the work to Schwitters’s broader Merz practice, a term he used for collages and assemblages made from found materials. Merzbau is often described as an early and influential example of installation art, although it also combined sculpture, architecture, collage, and personal symbolism.

The original Hanover Merzbau was destroyed during World War II. Schwitters later developed related environments, including a Merzbau in Norway and the Merz Barn in England. Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, and Hans Arp were prominent Dada artists, but Merzbau is uniquely associated with Schwitters.