Lot 141 | Hannah Höch | "Lärm über stillem Teich"

HÖCH, HANNAH
1889 Gotha - 1978 Berlin

Title: "Lärm über stillem Teich".
Date: Ca. 1966.
Technique: Collage on paper.
Measurement: 31.5 x 17cm.
Notation: Laid down on card (39,5 x 23cm). Signed lower right: HHöch. Titled left below the collage: LÄRM ÜBER STILLEM TEICH. Verso signed, titled and inscribed once more.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

We are grateful to Mr Dr. Ralf Burmeister, Berlinische Galerie, for the kind scientific support.

Provenance:
- Galerie Remmert & Barth, Düsseldorf
- Private collection Hesse

Exhibitions:
- Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1971
- Goethe-Institut, Kyoto/Nationalmuseum für Moderne Kunst, 1974
- Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M. 1977

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Hannah Höch. Collagen aus den Jahren 1916-1971, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1971, cat. no. 161, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Hannah Höch. Das künstlerische Schaffen einer Malerin des Dada, Goethe-Institut, Kyoto/Nationalmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Kyoto 1974, cat. no. 50
- Exhib. cat. Künstlerinnen international 1877-1977, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Arbeitsgruppe "Frauen in der Kunst", Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M. 1977, cat. no. 105

- Late work by the great German Dadaist, who is known for her astute and ironic photomontages and collages
- Her 'Dada montages' of the 1920s earned Höch a reputation as the most revolutionary artist of the 20th century
- Outstanding example of Höch's ability to change the way we see the world through subtle and powerful images