{"id":72556,"date":"2024-06-12T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=72556"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:00:51","slug":"hannah-hoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/hannah-hoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah H\u00f6ch exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoechsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-72846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoechsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoechsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Discover a pioneer of the photomontage and a post-WWI artist who challenged her male colleagues, the accepted wisdom, gender roles and more with her art: Hannah H\u00f6ch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Major retrospective with around 80 photomontages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes other media and material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Juxtaposed with films from the 1920s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Jun 21 &#8211; Oct 6, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lower-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3384\">Lower Belvedere overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assembled Worlds<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch3.jpg\" alt=\"Photomontage\" class=\"wp-image-72849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch3.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch3-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Hannah H\u00f6ch, Made for a Party (Detail), 1936; this work is part of the ifa art collection; photo: \u00a9 Christian Vagt; \u00a9 Bildrecht, Vienna 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got used to photomontages and other collage forms in art. But it wasn&#8217;t always so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You never saw Michelangelo pasting bits of cut-up canvas to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for example. (Though I haven&#8217;t checked.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All artistic developments need their pioneers. And one such pioneer when it came to the photomontage was the avant-garde German Dada artist Hannah H\u00f6ch (1889\u20131978).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H\u00f6ch&#8217;s compositions in the 1920s blazed various trails. The skilled recombination of images in a new whole, for example. Or the repurposing of everyday pictures the artist found in the new post-war wave of printed periodicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The works also offered (often satirical) sociopolitical critiques, as well as commentary on, for example, gender roles and women&#8217;s position in society.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahoch4.jpg\" alt=\"View of an exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-72850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahoch4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahoch4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the &#8220;Hannah H\u00f6ch. Assembled Worlds&#8221; exhibition; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; \u00a9 Bildrecht, Vienna 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such artistic characteristics bode badly for a woman in the early part of the 20th century. Back then, men still dominated art despite gradual post-WWI emancipation. In a development that will surprise nobody, the Nazis were not big fans of H\u00f6ch either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet H\u00f6ch (eventually) earned deserved acclaim, particularly for that pioneering work with photomontages and their use in political commentary. New York&#8217;s MoMA, for example, gave her a solo exhibition in 1997, and her work has appeared in over 30 other exhibitions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Assembled Worlds<\/em> exhibition comes to Vienna from the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, who produced it in collaboration with Belvedere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inevitable focus of this retrospective is on H\u00f6ch&#8217;s collages; around 80 photomontages feature. But the exhibition also includes archival material and other media (paintings, drawings, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many works feel remarkably ahead of their time. 1920&#8217;s <em>The Father<\/em> photomontage, for example, has a man in high heels holding a baby. You can only imagine how that might have gone down with many people a hundred years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch1.jpg\" alt=\"1926 painting by Hannah H\u00f6ch\" class=\"wp-image-72552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hannahhoch1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Hannah H\u00f6ch, Liebe, 1926; this work is part of the ifa art collection; press photo \u00a9 Christian Vagt; \u00a9 Bildrecht, Vienna 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those early works feel pointed but gentle: seemingly produced with a wry or disarming smile. A theme complementing (not dominating) the aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, H\u00f6ch moved away from art as (or with) commentary into what we might call art for art&#8217;s sake, drifting into surrealism toward the end of her life. And she used other media than the montage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved, for example, the linocut miniatures from student days portraying simplified and expressive black and white landscapes. And enjoyed H\u00f6ch&#8217;s ink and pencil drawings of classical concerts turned into symbolic forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the exhibition, H\u00f6ch&#8217;s works also appear in dialogue with silent movies by filmmakers she knew. She drew significant creative inspiration from film, recognising the medium as both art and a form of montage in its own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Assembled Worlds<\/em> certainly reminds us how quickly the new becomes the normal. Nobody blinks at a photomontage today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet if we allow ourselves to picture the sociopolitical and historical context, then we realise just how innovative H\u00f6ch was and how important for the development of modernist approaches to art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the works of this pioneering artist from June 21st to October 6th, 2024. An entrance ticket for or from Lower Belvedere includes access to <em>Assembled Worlds<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For much of the same time at Lower Belvedere, catch another female artist who disrupted the male hegemony of the past: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/broncia-koller-pinell\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"67748\">Broncia Koller-Pinell<\/a> in the attached orangery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3402\">directions for Lower Belvedere<\/a>. The exhibition takes place in the main wing of the building (on your left as you enter, with a ticket counter beyond the shop on your right).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover a pioneer of the photomontage and an artist who challenged the sociopolitics of post-WWI Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belvedere-sites","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72556"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76260,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72556\/revisions\/76260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}