Dadaist Still Life, 1922

ArtistHannah Höch, Gotha 1889–1978 Berlin

Pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, gouache on beige cardboard

Sheet dimensions43,3 × 35,3 cm

Status

on display, room 022

About the workHannah Höch, the only female member of the Berlin Dada movement, drew needlework patterns for magazines published by Ullstein Verlag between 1915 and 1926. Illustrated magazines were the source material for photomontage, which she co-invented in 1916: “A wondrous new territory, for the discovery of which a lack of inhibition is the first prerequisite. But not a lack of discipline,” as the artist noted in 1933. Here, the humorous collagist transferred elements of montage such as the surprising encounter of unrelated objects into the technique of watercolour.

AccessionAcquisition 1958

Provenance[...]; 12.1.1959 angekauft von der Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart

Inventory numberK 1958-158

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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