Hannah Hoch was a german artist who focused on the style dada and focused on collage in her work. She was born in 1889 and died in 1978 meaning she lived through two world wars, this is the reason for the dada and political influence in her work. Dada was an artistic movement formed in 1919 in Switzerland which rejected the monarchy and the military, they felt art should have no restrictions.  She was a pioneer of photomontage which focused on the issues of gender and the figure of women in in modern society which made her a pioneer of feminist art. She was also well known for her political collages where she reworked images and text fro the mass media as a critique of the failings of the weimar german government.  Her inspiration came from the collage work of Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters, both of their work incorporate a dynamic layered style.