Hanna Hoch - another favourite artist or rather someone of interest another woman artist! (an ongoing series!)

One of the truly great collagists (and pretty fine painter too see illus. 1) and worthy of more study Hoch (1889 -1978) was much sidelined in her time but worthy of much closer inspection I cam across here work as an art student  . . . . . . 

Hannah Höch (German, 1889-1978), Pflanzen bei Nacht [Plants at night], 1931. 

Gouache and watercolour on paper, 68.4 x 53.8 cm.

Hannah Höch (1889-1978), “Bürgerliches Brautpaar [Bourgeois Couple]” (1920), watercolour over pencil on laid watercolour paper, 50 x 39 cm.

Hannah Höch, Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum (Indische Tänzerin: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum), 1930, cut-and-pasted printed paper and metallic foil on paper, 25.7 x 22.4 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

   “Through the cut-and-pasted elements of Indian Dancer, Höch assembled references to film, Central African sculpture, and the domestic sphere. Her collaged model is the actress Renée (Maria) Falconetti (also known simply as “Falconetti”), appearing in a publicity still for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Half of Falconetti’s face is replaced with the ear, eye, and mouth of a wooden dance mask from Cameroon. Atop her head rests a crown of cutlery: cutout shapes of spoons and knives, set against glinting metallic foil.”

Hannah Höch (1889-1979), “Das Schone Madchen [The Beautiful Girl]” (1920), photomontage/collage.