Hannah Hoch - Queen of Collage

Hannah Hoch, Berlin Dadaist

Hannah Hoch, born Anna Therese Johanne Höch, born in 1889, was a Berlin Dadaist, and the Queen of Photomontage (Collage).

Hannah Hoch, Russian Dancer

Hoch went to the School of Applied Arts in Berlin (1912) and then to National Institute of Museum of Arts and Crafts (1915).

She was bisexual, in known relationships with Dutch writer, Mathilda Brugman, and Raoul Hausmann, another member of the Dada movement (not concurrently)  Her works from 1926 to 1935 often depicted same sex couples. Many of her characters have both masculine and feminine features.

 Hannah Hoch was one of the first pioneers of photomontage. 

To me, the strange pieces of flat worlds, pieced together like quilt squares create a surreal world that only Hannah knew.