A new museum dedicated to the works of German artist Kurt Schwitters is being planned for Ambleside in the Lake District.
The Littoral Arts Trust, a charity headed by Northern Irish artist Ian Hunter, wants to convert Schwitters' former studio, a disused barn near Ambleside, where he started working in 1947.
Littoral's plan is to convert the Merz Barn, as Schwitters christened it, into a museum dedicated to Schwitters' work. An auction is to be held at Royal College of Art next month with the aim of raising the £500,000 required for the project.
The trust acquired the barn in 2006 with a funding from the Northern Rock Foundation.
Schwitters, a Dadaist, was born in Hanover in 1887 and moved to England in 1940. He died of pneumonia in 1948.
