Representative work by Hannah Höch
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Hannah Höch

1889–1978 · German

Hannah Höch was a central innovator of photomontage within Berlin Dada. Cutting mass-media images of politicians, performers, machines and women into unstable new bodies, she used collage to examine gender, modern identity and the contradictions of Weimar culture.

Photomontage; collage; drawing; painting

Major Works

  • 1919–20Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
  • 1919Dada Panorama
  • 1920The Beautiful Girl
  • 1923High Finance
  • 1924–30From an Ethnographic Museum
  • 1927The Bride
  • 1930Indian Dancer
  • 1930Marlene
  • 1931Flight
  • 1963Grotesque

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