Hannah Höch

            Hannah Höch was born in the town of Gotha, Germany 1889. She studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. During war world one she left the school for a year to work with the Red Cross.   During her final school years Höch began an influential friendship with a member of the Berlin Dada movement name Raoul Hausmann. After College, she worked in the handicrafts department for The Ullstein Press, designing dress and embroidery patterns for The Lady and The Practical Berlin Woman. These experiences will later influence her works of art by incorporating her knowledge dress patterns and textiles. Höch was one of the first pioneers of the art form known as photomontage.
 Hannah Höch (wikipedia)

           

            Höch lived an interesting live. She became Hausmann mistress and after several years Hausmann refusal to leave his wife, and a couple of abortions latter, she became sexually involved with women. These tough life experiences helped shape he views on women’s wrights and to point out the hypocrisy in German society.