Hannah Höch – Assembled Worlds (2024)

Video (1:23): A short introduction to the exhibition Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds at Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria (2024).

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For the first time in Austria, a major museum retrospective will celebrate the work of the German Dada artist Hannah Höch (1889–1978). Höch was a key figure of the 1920s avant-garde and is regarded as one of the inventors of collage and photomontage. Armed with scissors and glue, she explored the power and impact of images in an incisive and ironic way. – Belvedere Museum

Accompanying the exhibition is this publication:

Hannah Höch – Assembled Worlds
Author: ed. Stella Rollig, Martin Waldmeier, Nina Zimmer; Kristin Makholm, Martin Waldmeier
Publishing Year: 2023
Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Format: 17 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-3-03942-172-5

Scheidegger & Spiess write about the book: Hannah Höch (1889–1978) moved between differing worlds: as an editorial assistant with a major Berlin-based magazine publisher, and as the only woman who could hold her own in the German capital’s vibrant Dada scene of the 1920s. Höch broke with the traditions of representation and vision. Her works dissected a world marked by the catastrophe of the Great War and an intense consumer culture and reassembled it in revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Höch kept to her artistic means and her poetic-radical imagination, shimmering between social observation and dream world, even in the post-WWII period. Scissors and glue were the weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a co-inventor.