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Hannah Hoch (German, 1889-1978)

"Käthe Kollwitz and German Expressionism" features over forty works by Käthe Kollwitz plus additional works by Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Heinrich Campendonck, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmuller, Hans Fronius, Georg Grosz, Erich Heckel, Hannah Hoch, Karl Hofer, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Ludwig Meidner, Edvard Munch, Gabrielle Munter, Heinrich Nauen, Emile Nolde, Max Pechstein, Hilla von Rebay, Georges Rouault, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Siegfried Schott, Georg Tappert, Wilhelm Wagner, and others.

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A German Expressionist who became one of the founders of the DADA movement, Hoch was a pioneer in photocollages and a frequent worker in linocut. She was involved withe the DADA movement from 1917 to 1921. She was also a member of the Novembergruppe. She was friendly with Arp, Van Doesburg, Moholy-Nagy, and Schwitters. Hoch's works are to be found in many important collections of modern art. We will shortly be adding a number of additional works by Hoch to this site, almost all of them linocuts from the period 1915-1920.

Bibliography: Berlinische Galerie, Hannah Hoch 1889-1978. Ihr Werk, ihr Leben, ihre Freunde. Texts by Jorn Merkert, Cornelia Thaft-Schulz, Peter Krieger, Chris Rehorst, Pavel Liska, Heinz Ohff, Hanne Bergius, Eberhard Roters, Armin Schulz, Maud Lavin, Bern Weise (Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 1989); Galerie Remmert und Barth, Hannah Hoch: Werke und Worte (Dusseldorf: Galerie Remmert und Barth, 1982); Will Grohmann, Hannah Hoch (London: Marlborough Fine Arts, 1966); Maud Lavin, Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch (New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1993); Ellen Maurer, Hannah Hoch. Jenseits fester Grenzen. Das malerische Werk bis 1945 (Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1995); Frank Whitford, Hannah Hoch: 1889-1978, Oil Paintings and Works on Paper (New York: La Boetie, Inc., 1983).
Street in Berlin. Original linocut, 1912. 1800 impressions signed in the block. Image size: 206x171mm. Price: $500.
Fruher frost. Original linocut, 1915. 2000 impressions for Kunstblatter 44/45. Image size: 125x92mm. Price: $400.
Kommen flatternde Vogel. Original linocut, c. 1915. Ours is an impression very good quality laid paper signed "H. Höch" and titled on the verso. We believe that this is a trial proof printed c. 1915, but we have never seen an impression from this edition. In 1964 a later version of this print was published by Galerie Nierendorf in Kunstblätter 6 on a smaller sheet of wove paper with the image rotated 180 degrees from ours in an edition of 2000. Image size: 125x97mm. Price: $1750.

An impression from this edition is also available, unsigned and untitled, for $400.
Uberwuchert. Original linocut, 1915. 2000 impressions published in 1980 by Galerie Nierendorf. Ours is a very good impression with rich colors on wove paper. We have never seen an impression published before this edition. Image size: 123x142mm. Price: $500.
Zirkulation. Original linocut, 1916. 2000 impressions for Kunstblatter 44/45. Image size: 103x75mm. Price: $400.
Uberwuchert. Original linocut, 1918. 3000 impressions published in 1980 for the 60th Anniversary of Galerie Nierendorf in Berlin, Höch's dealer. Image size: 148x171mm. Price: $500.
Heitere Formen - tanzerisch. Original color woodcut, 1961. 2000 impressions published in 1980 by Galerie Nierendorf. Ours is a very good impression with rich colors on wove paper. We have never seen an impression published before this edition. Image size: 127x92mm. Price: $750.
Cleopatra. Original linocut, 1970. 3000 impressions signed in the block. Image size: 128x73mm. Price: $475.
Der Tag beginnt / Day begins. Original color linocut, 1975. 120 signed and numbered impressions plus 2000 unsigned impressions for Kunstblatter 44/45 (of which ours is one). Image size: 141x120mm. Price: $750.
Die Nacht kommt / The coming of night. Original color linocut, 1975. 120 signed and numbered impressions plus 2000 unsigned impressions for Kunstblatter 44/45 (of which ours is one). Image size: 141x120mm. Price: $750.
Wachsen und Blühen. Original color linocut, 1975. 120 pencil-signed impressions published by Galerie Nierendorf. Image size: 260x355mm. Price: $1950.
Hannah Hoch (German, 1889-1978), Zwei Madchen. Original linocut, 1970. 250 impressions signed in the block for a deluxe printing, of which this is one. Image size: 280x223mm. Price: $850.

There were also 1800 impressions signed in the block printed on thinner paper. Image size: 280x223mm. Price: $500.

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