The guinea pigs Kurt kept merely went into the aromatic bargain. In this atmosphere Kurt Schwitters' work and family life went on."
21 January 2009
Kurt Schwitters' Hannover Studio
"Now the source of the peculiar odor (let's call it the Schwitter's aroma) could be classified in all its complexity. It was compounded, I discovered, of many things: (I) of the hot glue and homemade starch Schwitters needed for assembling his collages and his manuscripts, which were all cut up and pasted back together again, or his layouts and typographical compositions, which were similarly assembled; (2) of the plaster of Paris and clay required for composing his reliefs and sculptures; (3) of the cooking food; and (4) and of the just plain baby smell.
