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If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us VIENNA — Hannah Höch’s art was disruptive, irreverent, and, for its time, extremely loud. It presaged, by at least 80 years, present-day discourse over the ubiquity of mass-media imagery in the digital age.
Assembled Worlds at the Belvedere Museum is the first major museum retrospective in Austria dedicated to the iconic German artist. She was a leading figure of the Berlin Dada movement and is credited as one of the inventors of collage and photomontage. A prestigious German award for women artists is named after Höch, whose commentaries on the mass-media typecasting of women — featuring fashionable-looking figures with monstrous heads or smiles, or no heads — delivered a subversive critical blow to bourgeois views on gender and class as single women entered the work force a.