Hannah Höch: Sonnenaufgang. Original-Linolschnitt von 1915, Blatt 6 aus der Folge der "Miniaturen". Abzug für den Katalog „Kunstblätter der Galerie Nierendorf 6“, Berlin 1964. Der Linolschnitt wurde mit Erlaubnis von Hannah Höch in limitierter Auflage vom Original-Stock gedruckt den die Künstlerin der Galerie zur Verfügung stellte. Format 117 x 95 mm, Papier 220 x 155 mm.
Hannah Höch, eigentl. Johanna Höch (1. November 1889 Gotha - 31. Mai 1978 Berlin) war eine deutsche Collagekünstlerin des Dadaismus.
Hannah Hoech: Sunrise. Original linocut from 1915 printed from the original block for the catalogue „Kunstblätter der Galerie Nierendorf 6“, Berlin 1964.
Hannah Höch (November 1, 1889 - May 31, 1978) was a famous Dada artist born in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of the director of the class for glass organization, Harold Bergen. She resumed her studies in 1915, this time entering the graph class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadists began in earnest in 1919.
Höch's personal relationship with Hausmann grew from friendship to romantic over time. While this was the first crucial relationship to have bearing on Höch's artistic work, she often reflected upon her relationships in such pieces as Love. Some of Höch's work suggests that she carried on lesbian relationships during her life as well romantic relationships with men. Höch and Hausmann separated in 1922, at which point Höch was well on her way to becoming an artist in her own right, independent of her involvement with Hausmann. Incidentally, it was during Höch's relationship with Hausmann that both artists entered into the world of collage, pioneering what was to become a completely new artform.
Höch made more influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Schwitters, along with Höch, was one of the first pioneers of the artform that would come to be known as photomontage.
Höch's most famous piece is Cut With The Kitchen Knife, a critique on Weimar Germany in 1919. This piece combines images from newspapers of the time re-created to make a new statement about life and art in the Dada movement.
From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. For some years she engaged in a lesbian relationship with Dutch poet Til Brugman.
Höch spent the years of the Third Reich in Germany, trying to remain quiet and in the background. She married the much-younger businessman and pianist Kurt Matthies in 1938 and divorced him in 1944.
Though her work was not acclaimed after the war as it had been before the rise of the Third Reich, she continued to produce her photomontages and exhibit them internationally until her death.
Hannah Höch died in Berlin in 1978.