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Hannah Höch pioneered the art of photomontage, a genre that involves layering and juxtaposing photographs, scraps of paper, and newsprint to create a new composition. Assembling fragments of images from snippets of popular magazines and fashion journals, the artist enacted a biting social critique of a fragmented world in the wake of World War I. Höch’s reliance on mass-produced materials was a direct repudiation of more traditional art forms, such as painting, that required academic training. This "anti-art" statement brought her into the orbit of the Berlin Dada group, a branch of the transnational movement that was active from 1917 to 1923; Höch was its sole female member.

Trained as an artist, Höch attended the School of Applied Art in Berlin from 1912 to 1920, where she learned glass design, painting, graphic design, and printmaking, though her studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Be

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Thanks not least to Maud Lavin’s 1993 study, Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch, the centrality of Höch’s contribution to Berlin Dada is now generally accepted. But, based on the evidence of Daniel F. Herrmann, Dawn Ades, and Emily Butler’s rewarding Whitechapel Gallery monographic survey, that relationship was a complex one. Their show concluded with an extract from a 1974 German-TV documentary on the artist, in which she introduces her work first as Surrealist and later as an exploration of the “inherent laws of abstract beauty” underpinning artistic form. Neither position sits comfortably with “anti-art” – but then, despite her political commitments, it seems Hoch never really endorsed that Dada war cry. Raoul Hausmann was Höch’s Dada squeeze, but – to judge by the Whitechapel show – Kurt Schwitters, her great friend, was ultimately much stronger aesthetic and imaginative kin. The curators’ selection spanned Höch’s entire career, from the life studies, textile designs, and embroidery patterns

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Hannah Höch

German artist (1889–1979)

Hannah Höch (German:[hœç]; 1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.^[1] Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.^[2]

An important element in Höch's work was the intention to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that existed in the concept of the "New Woman": an energetic, professional, and androgynous woman, who is ready to take her place as man's equal. Her interest in the topic was in how the dichotomy was structured, as well as in who structures social roles.

Other key themes in Höch's works were androgyny, political discourse, and shifting gender roles. These themes all interacted to create a feminist discourse surrounding Höch's works, which encouraged the liberation and agency of women during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and continuing thr