Hannah Höch
German, 1889–1978
Of Delicate Things
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Hannah Höch
German, 1889–1978c. 1919
Of Delicate Things
Hannah Höch German, 1889–1978 →prints and drawingcollage
Date
c. 1919
Medium
Collage composed of cut and pasted printed and painted elements on tan wove paper
Dimensions
18.3 × 13.5 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
From 1916 to 1926 Höch worked in the handicrafts department of a German publishing house, designing patterns for embroidered and lace fabrics. During this time she also practiced collage as a fine-art form, eventually joining other Dada artists in Germany to make collages using a socio-political vocabulary that was quite distinct from the formalism of Cubist collage.
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