Hannah HÖch

Hannah HÖch
Hannah Höch, née Anna Therese Johanne Höch, (born November 1, 1889	Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist known for her political photomontages. Made from newspaper clippings and found objects, her work often engaged with the early 20th-century ideal of the “New Woman”—one who challenged the traditional domestic role of females.	Höch’s bold collisions and combinations of fragments of widely circulated images connected her work to the world and captured the rebellious, critical spirit of the interwar period	Höch began her training in 1912 at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where she studied glass design with Harold Bengen until her work was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I.She went back to Berlin in 1915 and re enrolled at the School of Applied Arts, where she studied painting and graphic design	Höch and Hausmann cut, overlapped, and juxtaposed (usually) photographic fragments in disorienting but meaningful ways to reflect the confusion and chaos of the postwar era.
The artist is most commonly associated with her photomontage cut with a kitchen knife through a beer belly of the weimar republic (1919-1920) which critiqued the male-domnated political apparatus.