Hana Hoch

Female. Feminist. Artist.

Traci Yrle
● born Anna Terese Joannae Hoch in Gotha; November 1, 1889 –
May 31, 1978
● she studied art in Berlin & worked as a pattern designer &
writer for women's handicrafts (1916-1926)
● at the start of WW1 she quit school to volunteer with the Red
Cross
● when she returned to school in 1915, she met Raoul
Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement
● shes most famous for Photomontage
 "Liebe" (love) 1926
Hoch created this piece while in a relationship with Raoul
Hausmann, a Viennese artist. He was married but refused to leave
his wife for her. This work is supposed to represent a conventional
relationship of enraptured love between a man & woman. Although
this piece conveys a "normal" relationship, hers were anything but.
After leaving Hausmann for being abusive, she entered a
relationship with Dutch writer & linguist Til Burgman from
1926-1929.
 ● Hoch was a radical feminist, she
believed in a woman's reproductive
rights.
● she was also a member of the Berlin
Dada group
● The Berlin Dada group "supported"
women's right but were reluctant to
include a woman in their ranks, Hans
Richter, an influential member,
described Hoch's contribution to the
Dada movement as the "sandwiches,
beer and coffee she managed
somehow to conjure up despite the
shortage of money."

Women were a central theme in her work.

In this particular piece she references the
hypocrisy of the Berlin Dada group and
German society as a whole.

"Da-Dandy" 1919
"The Beautiful Girl" "The Flirt"

"Russian Dancer/My Double"

1928
● during Hitler's reign she tried to stay under the radar

● she lived on the outskirts of Berlin in a little gardenhouse

● although her work was not acclaimed after the war as it had
been before the rise of the Third Reich, she continued to
produce her photomontages and exhibit them internationally

● Hana Hoch died on May 31, 1978 at the age of 88

 Citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_H%C3%B6ch