1937, Hannah Höch, Duft (Fragrance) -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label:
Hannah Höch was a photomontage artist and painter. She was the only woman member of the Berlin Dada group and exhibited at the First International Dada Fair in 1920. When she painted Duft, Höch faced grave personal and professional challenges. The Nazis had classified her as a 'Degenerate' artist and banned her from exhibiting. By 1937 all her friends had left Berlin; she said that in that year 'the radical loneliness set in'.
Höch modelled the figure of the woman on her own appearance. She inhales the scent of flowers with closed eyes. While the scene is vibrantly coloured, the woman stands before a dark and empty space. Höch often featured botanical forms in her work. To her plants represented fragility, endurance, renewal and, particularly in the 1930s, escapism.
1937, Hannah Höch, Duft (Fragrance) -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label:
Hannah Höch was a photomontage artist and painter. She was the only woman member of the Berlin Dada group and exhibited at the First International Dada Fair in 1920. When she painted Duft, Höch faced grave personal and professional challenges. The Nazis had classified her as a 'Degenerate' artist and banned her from exhibiting. By 1937 all her friends had left Berlin; she said that in that year 'the radical loneliness set in'.
Höch modelled the figure of the woman on her own appearance. She inhales the scent of flowers with closed eyes. While the scene is vibrantly coloured, the woman stands before a dark and empty space. Höch often featured botanical forms in her work. To her plants represented fragility, endurance, renewal and, particularly in the 1930s, escapism.