Hannah Höch 1889-1978

After studying painting at Charlottenburg Hannah Höch quickly became a famous artist practicing bonding assembly in 1919 in Berlin in Germany of the Weimar Republic. She uses scissors to select subversive in magazines its raw materials are the pieces that image. She realizes with these montages with fragments of human bodies and mechanical workings. It is remarkable by manipulating the variations of scale and the diversion of expressions. She quickly Dada movement by becoming a friend of Raoul Hausmann (founder of the Dadaist trend Berlin).

It occupies a special place in the Dadaist movement. There are two trends in his collages. The first is oriented policy. In this it is a neighbor to the work of John Heartfield. The second is oriented documentary. In his motion Dada she meets Kurt Schwitters with which it disseminates Dada movement across Europe.