Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum [From the collection: From an ethnographical museum]
About this artwork
This work is from a series photomontages executed between 1924 and 1930. It combines photographs of a mask, a baby's torso and an eye from a fashion magazine, in a deliberately enigmatic meeting of cultures. The hybrid figure at the centre of the composition is mounted on small feet, as if on display. The geometric background not only recalls the work of the De Stijl, the Dutch group of modernist artists and architects with whom Höch was associated, but also resembles a display case one might find in a museum or gallery setting.
Updated June 2023
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artist:Hannah Höch (1889 - 1978) German
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title:Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum [From the collection: From an ethnographical museum]
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date created:1929
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materials:Collage and gouache on paper
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measurements:26.00 X 17.50 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 3987
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Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch
Born in Gotha, Germany, Höch studied in Berlin where she later worked as a designer for a publishing firm from 1916 to 1926. She met the future Dada artist Raoul Hausmann in 1915 and through him, subsequently, became involved with the Berlin dada group. Although she made abstract paintings, Höch is...