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Before Photoshop, the Dada artist Hannah Höch created impressive works of photomontage with scissors and glue. In her hands, people’s heads could be cut off, arms and feet chopped and replaced with something else, eyes enlarged, and words and bodies distorted. The artist’s wonderful sense of humor can be sensed in her shrewdly balanced compositions. To Höch, photomontage was a vital way to express her political and social concerns as well.

Höch was a bisexual woman whose work echoed the anti-art sentiment and criticized the Weimar politics openly, and thus deemed “degenerate art” by the Nazi. From 1939, she left Berlin and lived in a small garden house in a remote area on the outskirts of the city.  

We missed her birthday on November 1st, but we wanted to wish her a belated Happy Birthday.

Dada & Dandy

Abyo & Ching

Ring Ring & Ayo

Garu & Tobe

Ching & Pucca

Pucca & Garu

Ring Ring & Pucca