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Hannah Höch
Gotha, Germany
Archival Overview
German Dada artist and the supreme pioneer of photomontage, famous for her subversive, witty, and feminist critiques of Weimar society, gender roles, and mass media.
Biographical Record
Hannah Höch was the only woman in the core Berlin Dada group, where she, alongside Raoul Hausmann, pioneered the medium of photomontage—splicing together images and typography from contemporary illustrated magazines to dismantle establishment propaganda and traditional gender conventions.
Her monumental 1919 collage, 'Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany', is a tour-de-force of satirical montage. During the Third Reich, Höch survived in quiet isolation in a cottage outside Berlin, safeguarding precious Dada archives from fascist destruction.
Key Life Milestones
Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Created the monumental masterwork of Berlin Dada photomontage satirizing political and cultural institutions.
From an Ethnographic Museum
Exhibited her groundbreaking collage suite confronting European beauty ideals and colonial racial fetishism.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialWest Berlin, Germany