Will Kurt Schwitters’ Last Art Studio – A Stone Barn In Britain’s Lake District – Be Bought And Shipped To China?

The building’s owner has failed to win funds to keep the building up – and after five attempts, it seems impossible. Why it’s important: “The Merz Barn in Langdale, Cumbria, was used by the German artist Kurt Schwitters, after he fled from the Nazis in 1940. The building became regarded as a pioneering piece of modernist art after Schwitters covered its walls in a distinctive collage of materials before his death in 1948.”