Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch was born in November 1889 and died in May 1978, aged 88. She studied in Berlin and worked as a pattern designers and writers on woman's handicrafts. Her artist partnership with Raoul Hausmann cause her to become part of the Berlin Clue Dada. However she expressed herself less politically than others in the group.

Hannah Hoch was a german pioneer of art known as photomontage. Many pieces of her were mocking the up and coming beauty industry of her time gaining greater importance in mass media through fashion and advertising photography. Women were a main theme in much of her work from 1963 to 1973. Also she used racial discrimination to make a statement. Some of her political work from the dada period shows the liberation of women all side the social and political changes of that time. Hannah Hoch was the only women who was part of the art movement known as dada.

In her work she use photos, other paper objects, pieces of machines and other objects to produce a final image, this were usually quite large. She intentionally continued to produce her photomontages, after the war, to be exhibited until he death.

Her most famous piece is Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands, this is a critique of the Weimar in Germany in 1919. To make this piece she combined images from newspapers of the time mixed and re-created them to make a new statement about life and art in the Dada movement. 







This is one example of Hoch's work, I think this photomontage is really clever because of the way different faces are used to make one face. I like the contrasts of the faces together. I also like the fact that even though all of the faces are different the bodies are all the same.


I also like this picture because of the way the face doesn't look like it fits right on the body and also I like that the face is mainly all the same apart from one of the eyes.











This is my favourite photomontage of Hannah Hoch's I really like how all of the eyes are different, I think this could show that no two people are the same and I think this is a really clever way to show this. I also like how this eyes put together look like a case of flowers.




















This is my recreation of one of Hannah Hoch's photomontages.