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Collage II (On Filet Ground) (Collage II [Auf Filetgrund])

c. 1925

Hannah Höch

Material / technique
Cut-and-pasted printed and painted paper on printed paper
Attribution / role
Collection / source
The Museum of Modern Art

Artwork notes

Artist-wide context

She cut up media photographs to question the roles people were expected to play, especially women.

Materials, marks and colour

Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.

Media and surface

Scissors, paste and printed photographs are central tools.

Marks and structure

Deliberate mismatches expose how an image has been assembled.

Palette and light

Differences in scale, skin tone and printed texture can be more pointed than a harmonious palette.

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