HÖCH, HANNAH1889 Gotha - 1978 Berlin


Title: "Guter Geist".
Date: 1969.
Technique: Collage on card.
Measurement: 46 x 36,5cm; Display size: 34,5 x 26cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: H.H. Titled and dated on the base cardboard: Guter Geist 69. Also titled, dated, signed, and with work details provided verso on the bottom: Guter Geist 1969 H.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is confirmed by Dr. Ralf Burmeister, Berlinische Galerie. We are grateful to him for his friendly scholarly support.

Provenance:
- Galerie Remmerth und Barth, Dusseldorf
- Private collection Hessen

Exhibitions:
- Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1971
- Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1971
- Goethe-Institut/Nationalmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Kyoto 1974

Literature:
- Exhib.-cat. Hannah Höch, Collagen aus den Jahren 1916-1971, Akademie der Künste,
Berlin/Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1971, cat.-no. 179

- Late work of the great German Dadaist, who is well-known for her astute and ironic photomontages and collages
- Her "Dadamontagen" of the 1920s brought Höch a reputation as the most revolutionary artist of the 20th century.
- Beautifl example of Höch's ability to change the way we see the world through subtle and expressive images.