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Hannah Höch Laura, Michael, Tyler, and Oliver

Bio ● Born November 1, 1889 in Gotha, Germany ● Born as Anna Therese Johanne Hoch in an upper-middle-class family ● Father, Friedrich, was the supervisor of an insurance company and believed that “a girl should get married and forget about studying art” ● Mother, Rosa, was an amateur painter ● Hoch’s education ended at 15 for family and picked up again in 1912 at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin, where she studied glass design ● School closed in 1914 due to World War 1 ● Returned to Berlin in 1915 and studied graphic arts at the School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts ● She met Dadaist artist Raoul Hausmann and entered a romantic relationship with him ● She was also close friends with another artist, Kurt Schwitters

Bio (cont) ● Hoch and Hausmann took a holiday to the Ostsee in 1918 where she discovered the concept of photomontage, and she began to produce the work for which she is best known ● She was part of the Dada movement in Berlin and was the only woman involved with the group but felt uncomfortable with their sexism and exhibitionist nature. She ended her relationship with Hausmann and left the Dada circle ● She began to connect to other artists at this time, moving to The Netherlands in 1926 where she started a relationship with Dutch writer Til Brugman, and they lived together for a decade ● During the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, Hoch was under attack from them as a creator of “degenerate art” and she was designated a “cultural bolshevik” ● She returned to Berlin permanently in 1936 while other artists were fleeing Germany ● Married Kurt Matthies in 1938, divorced him 6 years later

Bio (cont) ● After the war she broke many pre-war ties and veered into abstraction art instead ● Her pieces from this time were less well-known and less well-received by critics ● She tried to keep herself obscure and wasn’t interested in becoming a celebrity, but her work in photomontage was influential for many later artists (especially women) ● Died May 31, 1978 in Berlin, Germany

Dadaism Dadaism is a European artistic and literary movement from 1916-1923 that mocked conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity. The thesis behind the dada movement was a response to modern age. Reacting against the rise of capitalist culture and the concurrent degradation of art, artists in the early 1910s began to explore a new art, or an anti-art. Contemplating the definition of art, they experimented with the laws of chance and with the found object. Theirs was an art form underpinned by humor and clever turns, but at its very foundation the Dadaists were asking a very serious question about the role of art in the modern age. This question became even more pertinent as the reach of Dada spread, by 1915 its ideals had been adopted by artists in New York, Paris, and beyond – and as the world was plunged into the atrocities of World War I.

Artistic Process Used photo cutouts and glue Photomontage means a collage made from several photos usually coming from found sources and depicting political scenes. Hannah Hoch did not date many of her photomontages, and if she did, she would only mark the year it was made.

Cut with the Kitchen Knife... (Dada Through The Last Weimar Beer -Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany) 1919

Bourgeois Wedding Couple 1919

Beautiful Girl 1920

Abduction 1925

Untitled 1925

Vagabond 1926

Argument 1930

Indian Dancer 1939

Equalibre 1925

Monument to Vanity II 1926

Flirt 1926

About a Red Mouth 1967

Little Sun 1969

Works Cited ● "What Is Dadaism? Artland Insights and Art Movements." ARTLAND. August 17, 2018. Accessed September 04, 2018. https://artlandapp.com/what-is-dadaism/. ● Tate. "Photomontage – Art Term." Tate. Accessed September 03, 2018. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/photomontage. ● Ho ̈ ch, Hannah. The Photomontages of Hannah Ho ̈ ch: February 27 through May 20, 1997, the Museum of Modern Art, New York . New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1997. ● Souter, Anna. "Hannah Höch Artist Overview and Analysis." 2018. Accessed September 3, 2018. ● "Hannah Höch's Life and Legacy." The Art Story. Accessed September 03, 2018. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-hoch-hannah-life-and-legacy.htm. ● "The Beautiful Girl." Utopia/Dystopia. January 02, 2013. Accessed September 03, 2018. https://utopiadystopiawwi.wordpress.com/dada/hannah-hoch/the-beautiful-girl/.

Works Cited (cont) ● "Hannah Höch." Wikipedia. July 18, 2018. Accessed September 04, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Höch#Cut_with_the_Kitchen_Knife_Dada_through_the_Last_Weimar_ Beer-Belly_Cultural_Epoch_in_Germany_(1919).

Images Cited (in order of appearance) Hoch, Hannah, German, 1889-1978. 1919-1920. Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. http://library.artstor.org/asset/AHSC_ORPHANS_1071314085. Höch, Hannah, 1889-. 1919. Bourgeois Wedding Couple (Quarrel), Bürgerliches Brautpaar (Streit). photomontage. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822003045331. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1920. Beautiful Girl. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661023. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1925. Abduction: From an Ethnographic Museum. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661106. Hannah Höch (German, 1889-1978). c. 1925. Untitled (African Torso with Japanese Mask). Photograph. Place: Art Gallery of Ontario<br/>Purchase, 2012. http://library.artstor.org/asset/AAGOIG_10313896000. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1926. Vagabond. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661114. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1930. Argument. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822001175015.

Images Cited (cont) Höch, Hannah, 1889-. 1930. Indian Dancer, Indische Tänzerin: Aus Einem Ethnographischen Museum. photomontage with collage. Place: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822003045414. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1925. Equilibre. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661098. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1926. Monument to Vanity II. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661148. Hoch, Hannah, 1889-. 1926. Flirt. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000661122. Höch, Hannah, 1889-. c.1967. About a Red Mouth, Um Einen Roten Mund. photomontage. Place: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822003045505. Höch, Hannah, 1889-. 1969. Little Sun, Kleine Sonne. photomontage. Place: Landesbank Berlin. http://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822003045521.