![Hannah Hoch - Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic [1919] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3703/11186396416_4411cdfc81.jpg)
Hannah Hoch - Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic [1919], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Hannah Hoch (Gotha, November 1, 1889 - Berlin, May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Höch spent the years of the Third Reich in Berlin, trying to remain quiet and in the background. She lived in Berlin Heiligensee a remote area in the outskirts of Berlin hiding in a little Gardenhouse. She married the much-younger businessman and pianist Kurt Matthies in 1938 and divorced him in 1944.Though her work was not acclaimed after the war as it had been before the rise of the Third Reich, she continued to produce her photomontages and exhibit them internationally until her death.
[Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Collage of pasted paper, 144 x 90 cm]