Dada-puppets | Hannah Höch, 1889 – 1978
Hannah Höch, Two Dada-puppets, 1916 Hannah Höch, The Puppet Balsamine, 1927 .
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. As the sole female member of the German Dada group (George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Johannes Bader, Richard Huelsenbeck and John Heartfield), Höch was an early pioneer of photomontage, the format she utilized to voice her criticisms of the Weimar German Government and to champion women’s rights.
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Following the rise of the Nazi regime, Höch’s work lost acclaim and during the war she retreated to obscurity.
Hannah Höch and her puppets, 1920 Hannah Höch and Dada doll, 1925
Hannah Höch, Two Dada-puppets, 1916 Hannah Höch and her puppets, 1920
