{"id":"merz","no":436,"name":"Merz","ja":"メルツ","era":"1919–1948","family":"前衛","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 23","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"Tate — Art Terms: Merz","url":"https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/merz"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/merz","credit":"Tate — Art Terms: Merz","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt%20Schwitters%20-%20%22Merz%2050%22%20Composition%20-%20Google%20Art%20Project.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt%20Schwitters%20-%20%22Merz%2050%22%20Composition%20-%20Google%20Art%20Project.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters《Merz 50》— Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt%20Schwitters%20Merz%203.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt%20Schwitters%20Merz%203.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters『Merz 3』1923 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plate%202%20from%20Merz%203%20by%20Kurt%20Schwitters%2C%201923%2C%20lithograph%2C%20Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate%202%20from%20Merz%203%20by%20Kurt%20Schwitters%2C%201923%2C%20lithograph%2C%20Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters『Merz 3』図版2, 1923, リトグラフ — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"}]},"essence":"銀行の広告文の断片から採られた一語を旗印に、切符・包み紙・破れた活字といった廃品だけで構成をつくる個人の運動。ゴミを構成材として扱う態度と、活字断片の抽象的な配置は、コラージュと雑誌デザインの語彙を決定づけた。","cues":["切符・包紙など廃品の貼付","破れた活字と数字の断片","斜行する構成軸","経年した紙の色"],"intents":["技術","懐かしさ","反骨"],"works":["古書店や蚤の市の告知で、集めた紙そのものを構成材にしたいとき","同人誌やリトルプレスの表紙を、印刷の余りと端物で組みたいとき"],"recipe":{"type":"既存の印刷物から活字を切り出し、大きさを揃えず貼る","layout":"軸を斜めに一本通し、四角い断片をその周りに掛ける","material":"切符や包み紙をそのまま重ね、糊と経年の色を残す"},"avoid":"廃品の写真を素材集から選ぶと拾った物の履歴が消え、汚れ加工の紙面に落ちる。断片は懐かしさの飾りでなく、構成の軸を担わせる。","colors":["#dbd9c9","#ab3120","#25191e"],"motif":"graphic","pair":["dada","new-typography"],"study":["雑誌『Merz』の版面","メルツバウの空間","構成主義との共同作業"],"en":{"essence":"A one-man movement flying as its banner a single word clipped from a bank advertisement, building compositions out of nothing but discards such as tickets, wrapping paper and torn type. Treating rubbish as structural material, and placing typographic fragments abstractly, it settled the vocabulary of collage and magazine design.","cues":["Pasted refuse such as tickets and wrappers","Fragments of torn type and numerals","Diagonal axes of construction","The colour of aged paper"],"works":["Collage-driven editorial and zine layouts built from printed ephemera","Craft-minded branding that composes real tickets, stamps and offcuts"],"recipe":{"type":"Salvaged letterpress fragments—mismatched sizes, partial words, stray numerals","layout":"Tilted constructive axes locking scraps into an abstract armature","material":"Aged tickets, wrappers, stamps and torn print, glued with visible edges"},"avoid":"Picking images of junk from a stock library erases the history the found object carries and leaves applied grunge. Fragments are not nostalgic decoration, they must hold the axes of the composition.","study":["The page layouts of the magazine Merz","The space of the Merzbau","The collaborations with Constructivism"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/merz","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/merz","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/merz/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/merz/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}