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Hannah Höch — Begegnung mit dem Wesensfremden (Encounter with the Strange Being)
Hannah Höch

Begegnung mit dem Wesensfremden (Encounter with the Strange Being)

1956

Hannah Höch's Begegnung mit dem Wesensfremden (Encounter with the Strange Being) from 1956 is a collage on board that exemplifies the Dada artist's ongoing exploration of fragmentation and visual juxtaposition. The work uses cut and assembled images to create disorienting encounters between disparate elements.

Medium
collage on board

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(Women) Artists

May 20, 2021

Estimate: $12,000$18,000

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Hannah Höch, Begegnung mit dem Wesensfremden (Encounter with the Strange Being), 1956

Hannah Höch's Begegnung mit dem Wesensfremden (Encounter with the Strange Being) from 1956 is a collage on board that exemplifies the Dada artist's ongoing exploration of fragmentation and visual juxtaposition. The work uses cut and assembled images to create disorienting encounters between disparate elements.

Medium
collage on board
Year
1956
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Surreal, Dada, Conceptual, Figure, Mixed Media, Collage, Post-War, Whimsical, German, Figurative

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