Höch became familiar with knitting, crocheting, and embroidery while working as a designer in Berlin, creating handwork patterns for crafting magazines. Cut-and-pasted images met elements of the applied arts in her pieces, whether in the needlepoint diagram evoked in Collage II or the texture of thread suggested by the flower petals of Watched. In these works, Höch feminizes the Dada movement’s engagement with the everyday by pairing craft techniques, traditionally seen as women’s work, with the avant-garde strategy of photomontage—the cutting and recombining of mechanically reproduced images.
Hannah Höch Watched 1925
- Medium
- Cut-and-pasted printed paper on printed paper
- Dimensions
- 10 1/8 x 6 3/4" (25.7 x 17.1 cm)
- Credit
- Joseph G. Mayer Foundation Fund in honor of René d'Harnoncourt
- Object number
- 2634.1967
- Copyright
- © 2021 Hannah Höch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Hannah Höch has 12 works online.
- There are 16,497 drawings online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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In the Twenties Mar 21–Jun 15, 1975 3 other works identified
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Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America Aug 20–Nov 14, 1976 2 other works identified
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509: Florine Stettheimer and Company Fall 2019–Fall 2020 12 other works identified
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509: Florine Stettheimer and Company Fall 2019–Fall 2020 3 other works identified
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