Miguel Almagro - Audiovisuals

HOMAGE TO HANNA HOCK

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Hannah Höch, born Joanne Höch in Gotha. Her affair and artistic partnership with Raoul Hausmann, a Viennese artist, lasted from 1915 to 1922. Through Hausmann, she became part of the Berlin Club Dada, an artistic movement dating from about 1916 and also involved, after the first World War, with political radicalism. From 1926-1929 she lived and worked in Holland. She lived for some years in a lesbian relationship with Dutch poet Til Brugman.

Höch spent the years of the Third Reich in Germany, trying to remain quiet and in the background. She married the much-younger businessman and pianist Kurt Matthies in 1938, divorcing in 1944.