Rajesh Punjabi GR616 - Making Ideas Visible Influences Hannah Hoch On November 1st, 1889 Anna Therese Johanne

Hoch was born in Gotha, Germany. She would later be known as Hannah Hoch as she studied glass design and graphic arts in Berlin at the College of Arts and Crafts from 1912 to 1914. She left her studies to join the Red Cross at the start of World War I. After a year of service entered the National Institute of the Museum of Fine Arts and Crafts to take a graphics class where she met Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Dada movement. Hoch went to work in a handicrafts department of The Ullstein Press (known as Ullstein Verlag in Germany) in 1919. There Hoch designed dress and embroidery pattern for her works Die Dame (The Lady) and Die Praktisch Berlinerin (The Practical Berlin Woman). She remained involved with Hausmann until 1922 and became the only female member of the Berlin Dada movement. The two worked together for several years developing the photomontage style and producing collages such as Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, and Equilibre (Balance) (Figures 3.1 & 3.2). Hannah decided to leave Hausmann, who was already married to another woman and having an affair with Hoch, refused to get married to her. In 1926, Hoch moved to Holland in the Netherlands where she got into a relationship with the Dutch poet Til Brugman. She would later return to Berlin in 1929 and create Dompteuse (Tamer) and Strong-Armed Men (Figures 3.3 & 3.4). Hoch then got married to Kurt Matthies from 1938-1944, a young businessman and pianist, while working on At Nile II, and Never Keep Both Feet on the Ground (Figures 3.5 & 3.6). After her divorce Hannah Hoch continues her work in photomontage and exhibited Burst Unity and Grotesque (Figures 3.7 & 3.8). Hoch remained in Berlin until her death in 1978.

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[Pg 2, Top Left] Hannah Hch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin. [Pg 2, Top Right] Hannah Hch, Equilibre (Balance), 1925, Photomontage With Collage And Watercolor, 30.5 x 20.3 cm, Collection Institut Fr Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, 1996 Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York/Nv Bild-Kunst, Bonn [Pg 3, Top Left] Hannah Hch, Dompteuse (Tamer), 1930, Photomontage with collage elements, 14 x 10 1/4 inches, Kunsthaus Zrich [Pg 3, Second down, Left] Hannah Hch, Strong-Armed Men, 1931, Photomontage with collage elements. [Pg 3, Bottom, Left] Hannah Hch, At Nile II, 1940, Photomontage with collage elements. [Pg 3, Top Middle] Hannah Hch, Never Keep Both Feet on the Ground, 1940, Photomontage, 12 11/16 x 8 3/16 inches [Pg 3, Top Right] Hannah Hch, Burst Unity, 1955, Photomontage with collage elements. [Pg 3, Bottom Right] Hannah Hch, Grotesque, 1963 collage 25 x 17cm courtesy of the Institute of Foreign Relations.

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