Hannah Hch

Anna Therese Johanna HchNov. 1st 1889- May 31st 1978Hannah Hch

1Attended the School of Applied Arts in 1912 at Berlin under a glass designer named Harold BergenReceived schooling after WWI at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts under Emili Orilik, a graphics designer.

Education

Hannah Hch, Tailor's Flower, 1920. Collage, 20 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (Collection Louise Rosenfield Noun, Des Moines)Tailor's Flowers Her inspiration might have come from working in publishing with embroidery and sewing patterns. Womens domestic work effected her creative process. A new abstract look at womens work being expressive. Could have been social by causing awareness to gender roles and womens place in society. All Dada pieces were made for the public to see and to speak about the turmoil and confusion that the war caused the public. This piece emphasized womens function.Tailor's Flowers

Hannah Hch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919Photomontage, 44 7/8 x 35 9/16 inchesPreubischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, BerlinCut with the Kitchen KnifeHer inspiration was the war. A statement about the Weimar era, every military, political and cultural figure in early Weimar.Changed the way people saw the different point of views on the war in a them vs. us battle with Communists and Dadaists. Also had a social message because the woman played the main role in the piece by always moving. Hch was bringing focus the womens newfound power after the war. The creative process expresses the turbulent feelings that the war had created socially and politically. Cut with the Kitchen Knife

Hannah Hch, Da Dandy, 1919Photomontage, 11 13/16 x 9 1/16 inchesDa DandyWomen blur together to make a man speaking on the role of the new woman after the war but it often raises the question of whether the economic and social status quo has changed also. This piece is very powerful in changing the way people thought not only about where women now stood in socially but it also looks deeper into how that effected men- thus the economy and political means. Her creative process took modern women and created the outline of a man not to answer the questions about the roles but to make the public think about what all these changes have effected. Da DandyWhat is the historical contribution of her works? Politically? Socially? How does it re-open and reframe the discourse on collage practice?How did her pieces speak to the public? Did the works speak differently to different genders? If so, how? If I told you that Hannah was bisexual and was against marriage would that change your understanding on the pieces on women of that time?What is your favorite piece and why?

Discussion QuestionsGiordano, Veronica. "The Intriguing World of Hannah Hoch." The Positive. N.p., 2012. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.Hager, Liz. "Venetian Red Art Blog." Venetian Red Art Blog. The Black-LetterHead Theme, 16 Jan. 2010. Web. 16 Mar. 2014"NGA-DADA - Artists-Hoch." NGA-DADA - Artists-Hoch. National Gallery of Art, 2014. Web. 17 Mar. 2014."Utopia/Dystopia." UtopiaDystopia. The Blogum Theme, 27 Dec. 2012. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.Citations