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Of Delicate Things

A work made of collage composed of cut and pasted printed and painted elements on tan wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • A work made of collage composed of cut and pasted printed and painted elements on tan wove paper.

Date:

c. 1919

Artist:

Hannah Höch
German, 1889–1978

About this artwork

From 1916 to 1926 Höch worked in the handicrafts department of a German publishing house, designing patterns for embroidered and lace fabrics. During this time she also practiced collage as a fine-art form, eventually joining other Dada artists in Germany to make collages using a socio-political vocabulary that was quite distinct from the formalism of Cubist collage.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Hannah Höch

Title

Of Delicate Things

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1914–1924

Medium

Collage composed of cut and pasted printed and painted elements on tan wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "HOCH"; inscribed, lower left, in blue ball point pen: "VON ZARTEN DINGEN"; lower right, in blue ball point pen: "19";verso, upper center, in graphite: "32" (encircled); upper center, in pen and black ink: "659" or "LSG" [?](in rectangle); upper center, in pen and black ink: "1963" (in rectangle); lower left, in graphite: "56" (encircled); lower right, in graphite: "H.H."

Dimensions

18.3 × 13.5 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.950

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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