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Hannah Höch German Dada artist photomontage
Wonderful wonderful wonderful collages by German Dadaist Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist best known for her photomontage art work which linked female liberation with leftist political revolution.
Radical movements often espouse the most conservative of values. Dada claimed it was radical, anti-bourgeoise, and anti-capitalist in its aesthetics. But two of its key members (George Grosz and John Heartfield) refused to include any women (or their work) in the movement. Women, they said, were there to make the sandwiches, pour the beer, and … Continue reading "Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’"
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Wonderful wonderful wonderful collages by German Dadaist Hannah Höch
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As the first retrospective of the work of Hannah Höch opens at the Whitechapel Gallery, AnOther presents a collection of the best collage art
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist best known for her photomontage art work which linked female liberation with leftist political revolution.
Hannah Höch, Two Dada-puppets, 1916 Hannah Höch, The Puppet Balsamine, 1927 Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. As the sole female member of the German Dada group (George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Johannes Bader, Richard Huelsenbeck and John Heartfield), Höch was an early pioneer of photomontage, the format she utilized to voice her criticisms of the Weimar German Government and to champion women’s rights. Following the rise of the Nazi regime, Höch’s work lost acclaim and during the war she retreated to obscurity. Hannah Höch and her puppets, 1920 Hannah Höch and Dada doll, 1925 Hannah Höch, Two Dada-puppets, 1916 Hannah Höch and her puppets, 1920
Hannah Höch was not a “good girl.” She was, as curator Juan Vicente Aliaga notes, a “total woman.” Staking her claim among the male Berlin Dada group with grotesque photomontage…
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Radical movements often espouse the most conservative of values. Dada claimed it was radical, anti-bourgeoise, and anti-capitalist in its aesthetics. But two of its key members (George Grosz and John Heartfield) refused to include any women (or their work) in the movement. Women, they said, were there to make the sandwiches, pour the beer, and … Continue reading "Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’"
In Hannah Hoch’s collage wonderland anything is possible; men’s faces sprout wings and chase primeval monsters, broken artefacts assemble into beasts and women’s bodies are cut apart and left to float in space. She wrote: “…there are no limits to the materials available for pictorial collages – above all they can be found in photography,...
