Hannah Höch was a Berlin Dada artist known for her pioneering photomontages in the 1920s. She studied at art schools in Berlin and helped establish photomontage as a respected art form among the Berlin Dadaists. Her works often featured multiple layered elements and themes of feminism, anti-racism, and criticism of the Weimar Republic through juxtaposition and non-hierarchical compositions.

1. Hannah
Höch

2. Anna Therese Johanne Höch
1889 – 1978
Berlin Dada artist
Studied at
Kunstgewerbeschule
•College of Arts and Crafts
•National Institute of Arts and
Crafts
The Ullstein Press
Common features
Multiple layers
Multiple elements
Themes of feminism, anti-racism, anti-Weimar Republic
sentiment
Juxtaposition

3. One of the originators of photomontage
Berlin Dadaists established photomontage as a respected art form

4. Untitled (1924)
Private collection, courtesy the Mayor Gallery,
London © DACS 2010.
“has the look of a constructivist machine age
picture” –National Galleries Scotland
Monochromatic
Handicraft
Non-hierarchal composition
Non-objective

5. Schall and Rauch cabaret
Associated journal cover (1920)
The Puppet Balsamine (1927)
Abstraction
Absurdity
Exaggeration
Tonal variation

6. Da-Dandy(1919)
Freewheeling images
Contrasting colour scheme
Tonal variation
Typography
Hypocrisy of Berlin Dadaists

7. Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through
the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural
Epoch in Germany (1919)
Several elements
“visualrollcallofalmostevery
military,politicalandcultural
figureinearlyWeimarGermany”
-venetianred.net
Cubist influence
“simultaneous montage”
-Matthew Biro, The Dada Cyborg
Non-hierarchal
organization
Contrasting
colour scheme
Typographic
labelling

8. “The first grrrl collage artist”
- me