Hannah Hoch Research

Hannah Höch (German, November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her rather.  In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Portrait of Hannah Hoch, 1992. This image is a self portrait that consists of different pictures stuck together to make  collage portrait, i love the surreal aesthetic of the image and the way all her body parts are out of proportion, this is the sort of effect that she's trying to create, i would love to make images in the style of Hoch as i'm really drawn to the political/ surrealist type images that she produces as i think it's very interesting yet challenging.

 the colours come alive together in this picture, as all the different colours and sizes of the cut out eyes growing on bunches of flowers, really work well together, on this image Hoch clearly tries to show off all natural imagery in this collage. The background is  a warm relaxing orange colour, however the eyes keep staring destroying that sense of ease. The viewer can't help but look at the eyes as the eyes are all in different directions. Object and subject are difficult to differentiate from, some only have an eyeball and others have the whole eye; which engages dealing fairly with sexism- equal through the eye. Bouquet of eyes, 1930.

 Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919. The whole if this collage is very politically motivated, within the image issues on homosexuality, womens rights, marriage and racial prejudice. This is a great reflection of the times as in Germany during that period there was a lot of political tension. I love the bleakness of the image and the mute changes in colour throughout and the way all the images are quite industrial and powerful.