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Hannah Höch

German Dada artist and originator of photomontage.

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Hannah Höch

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Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist born in Gotha, Germany in 1889 and died in Berlin in 1978.[1][2] During the Weimar period, Höch helped originate photomontage, a fact for which she remains most famous.[1] A Google Doodle marked what would have been her 128th birthday on 1 November 2017.[3]

Life and work

Art historian Maria Makela has characterized Höch's affair with Raoul Hausmann as "stormy".[4] Anna Therese Johanne Höch, later known as Hannah Höch, first came into the world in Gotha, Germany.[5] In 1904, Höch's parents removed her from school so she could look after her youngest sibling, Marianne.[6] Under the tutelage of glass designer Harold Bergen, Höch commenced her studies at Berlin's college of Applied Arts in 1912.[6]

Throughout the Third Reich's existence, Höch remained in Berlin and maintained a very low profile.[7]

What the cited sources add

The In the In-Between account notes that Höch's work added "a wryly feminist note" to the Dadaist philosophy.[8] The Guardian article reports that the Nazis branded her a degenerate and the dadaists tried to edge her out.[9] The National Museum of Women in the Arts account notes that Höch's painting In Front of a Red Evening Sun illustrates her ongoing experimentation with abstraction.[2] The In the In-Between account states that Höch was among the first prominent artists to work with photo-montage techniques.[8]

Androgynous figures appeared in Höch's works, a feature that drew the hatred of the Nazis, according to the National Gallery of Art account.[10][11] The Art Story account says that in her trailblazing photomontages, Höch directly tackled the subjects of gender and women's place in contemporary society.[12] Combining male and female anatomies was a method Höch employed very frequently, as the In the In-Between account notes.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Christiane., "50 women artists you should know", Prestel, 2008; "NGA-DADA – Artists-Hoch", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "Hannah Höch National Museum of Women in the Arts", nmwa.org. facts only, no text reused. nmwa.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hannah Höch's 128th Birthday", Google Doodles Archive (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Makela, "Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture", University of California Press, 1997, p. 119–121; Maria Makela (1996). "By Design: The Early Work of Hannah Höch in Context". In Boswell, Peter; Makela, Maria; Lanchner, Carolyn (eds.). The photomontages of Han; Makela, "Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture", University of California Press, 1997, p. 119–121 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Biro 2009, p. 199.; "Great Women Artists", Phaidon Press, 2019, p. 189 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McEwen, "Hand/Arbeit/Buch/SchrifT: approaching the female hand", Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University, May 2013, p. 48; Makela 1994, p. 13; Makela 1994, p. 13 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hannah Höch National Museum of Women in the Arts", nmwa.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. "Hannah Hoch and the Dada Montage ⋆ In the In-Between", In the In-Between, 2013-04-29. facts only, no text reused. inthein-between.com
  9. Dillon, "Hannah Höch: art's original punk", The Guardian, 2014-01-09. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  10. Wikipedia, "Hannah Höch" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "NGA-DADA – Artists-Hoch", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "NGA-DADA – Artists-Hoch", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
  12. "Hannah Höch Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works", The Art Story. facts only, no text reused. theartstory.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Hannah Höch (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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