The value structure of Kurt Schwitters is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #8D5C41, is reserved to 5.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 71 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Kurt Schwitters's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.