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Hannah Hch 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. Photomontage, or, fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media. Hchs work existed to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that existed in the concept of the New Woman an energetic, professional and androgynous woman, who is ready to take their place as mans equal. Her interest in the topic was how the dichotomy was structured, as well as who structures social roles.

Hannah Hch was born Anna Therese Johanne Hch in Gotha, Germany. Although she went to school, domesticity took precedence in the Hch household in 1904, where Hch was taken out of the Hhere Tchterschule in Gotha to care for her youngest sibling Marianne. In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Hch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Hchs involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1917. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlag , designing dress and

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