Who was Hanna Hoch?

Hanna Hoch was an influential German artist and was one of the famous and lone female member of the Berlin Dada movement. She was one of the pioneer artists to work with photo montage techniques in Dada movement. Hoch’s most famous photomontage was “Cut with the Dada kitchen knife through the last Weimar Beer-Belly cultural epoch in Germany”, she showed this in International Dada fair in 1920. She rejected German government but often Hanna Hoch focused on gender and the presence of women in the modern world.

Dada movement began in Zurich, Switzerland in the year 1919. It is an artistic and literary movement which arose as a reaction to world war-I. The artists of Dada movement through their arts expressed their discontent with violence, war and nationalism and maintained political connections with radical left groups. Dada movement was the first conceptual art movement.

In Photomontage new composite image is formed by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs