Hannah Hoch is famous for largely her works in Dada works and photo montages.   Her work usually expresses her feelings towards the German Wiemar Government and the many struggles it faced making German life hard.  In her works she largely focuses on feminine themes drawing inspiration from a range of artists such as:  Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters.  This is apparent in her work as for example she sometimes introduces male features on woman and vice versa with a slightly rebellious touch by including props such as cigarettes which highlights the day to day struggles of German life under the Wiemar Government.   She became a leading feminist from her montages for works such as Das Schone Madchen (the beautiful girl) in 1920.

In the top photograph,  the fact new photographs that are in slightly worse condition than the background photograph and depict someone sad onto what was a presumably happy looking photograph.  This is done through the fact it’s got slightly warmer colors.  Interestingly, how Hannah Hoch implements these sad photographs onto happy ones demonstrates the attitude to German life particularly in these  hard times through hyperinflation in 1924 where people who were happy grow old and will only get more miserable and disappointed through life.

In the bottom photograph it is evident of her demonstrating her feminist values because in Germany in this time, new fashions such as short hair, modern art, culture and architecture.  The fact the object has short hair was a new tradition that was frowned upon by the upper bourgeois classes which therefore shows her sense of rebelliousness as an artist.

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