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Collage of strips of papers printed with a network of lines

A background sheet of honeycomb gridded paper has been overlaid with yellowing strips of paper. These strips are printed with various grid patterns of subdivided triangles or of dotted lines of small repeating circles or squares. Integrated into this network of lines, at lower left is a black and white image of a section of lacework. The yellowed strips contrast subtly with the whiter paper of the honeycomb background, and in some places squares of blank yellowed paper interrupt the gridded sections.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR56.46
People
Hannah Höch, German (Gotha, Thuringia, Germany 1889 - 1978 Berlin, Germany)
Title
On a Tulle Net Ground
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Auf Tüllgrund
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310704

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of cut printed papers on paper board
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
31 x 22.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 in.)
framed: 48.6 x 38.4 cm (19 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: HH / 21
  • inscription: l.r., black ink, in artist's hand: [Initialled:] H.H.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Rose Fried Gallery
Copyright
© Hannah Höch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
BR56.46
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 134
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 198, ill.
  • Gu Zheng, "Documentary and Representative: Harvard Art Museums' Photography Collections (Part Two)", Chinese Photography (Beijing, China, 2018), 468, pp. 128-135, p. 135, ill. (color)
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 351-352, fig. 2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • German Art of the Twenties, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/1981 - 04/11/1981
  • Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
  • Three Berlin Artists of the Weimar Era: Hannah Hoech, Kaethe Kollwitz, Jeanne Mammen, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 04/23/1994 - 07/17/1994; Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 09/13/1994 - 11/05/1994
  • The Photomontages of Hannah Hoech, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 02/26/1997 - 05/20/1997; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 06/21/1997 - 09/14/1997
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/06/2015
  • White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2022 - 07/31/2022

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