#hannahhoch

Indian Dancer, Hannah Hoch 

Flucht (Flight), Hannah Hoch

From Above, Hannah Hoch

Three of my favorite pieces by Hannah Hoch. She is my favorite collage artist-- the way she uses muted colors and her choice in images to put in embody simplicity and purpose. I enjoy the trippy feeling I get every time I look at her work, and I never seem to get bored. It all seems new. I wonder how pieces like this would translate digitally/ made originally digitally. 

COLLAGE ON VIEW

Elemental Singularities

Richard Poulin at Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery in Palm Springs, California, USA through 25 February 2020. Since the 1970s, Poulin has been inspired by the work of modernists and avant-garde artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, and Joseph Cornell. Richard has said that “these ‘visual essays’ express my life’s passions and pains, joys and losses, and the fundamental aspects of spirit, soul, and being.” MORE

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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.