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The Merzbarn in the Lake District was made at a desperate time in his life, when Schwitters found himself subsisting, with a serious heart condition, in dank English lodgings on the proceeds of academic portraits and landscapes, despondent that he could not even obtain an interview with the director of the National Gallery in London.
ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters
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At the top is a new restaurant which offers visitors one of the greatest panoramas of London, past the pepperpot dome of the National Gallery, over Lord Nelson's shoulder in Trafalgar Square and on to the Palace of Westminster.
ECONOMIST: Museum sponsorship
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They included Mark Getty, the grandson of John Paul Getty and the new chairman of London's National Gallery, Matthew Freud, a PR magnate, Peter Simon, a British retailer and founder of Monsoon and Accessorize, all three members of the Mugrabi family who own already nearly 100 Hirsts, and Sir Norman Rosenthal, a former secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of Mr Hirst's earliest supporters.
ECONOMIST: Damien Hirst