Hannah Höch

Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum [From the collection: From an ethnographical museum]

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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
  • title:
    Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum [From the collection: From an ethnographical museum]
  • date created:
    1929
  • materials:
    Collage and gouache on paper
  • measurements:
    26.00 X 17.50 cm
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
  • accession number:
    GMA 3987
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Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch