Lot 402 
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Hannah Höch
Clown im entstehen, 1955.
Collage on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,500 Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820 (incl. surcharge)
Clown im entstehen. 1955.
Collage on cardboard.
With a collaged monogram in lower right. Signed, dated and with an exhibition note on the reverse, as well as titled on a label. 29.9 x 19.5 cm (11.7 x 7.6 in). Cardboard: 34,5 x 26,2 cm (13,5 x 10,3 in).
[EH].
• From the collection of Peter Carlberg, the artist's nephew.
• Exhibited at Galerie Rosen, Berlin, in 1957.
• Hannah Höch – one of the most important female artists of Modernism in Germany.
• The Dada luminary Hannah Höch was a pioneer of the collage.
• Distanced and anti-romantic definition of a clowns
• Collages by Hannah Höch can be found at, among others, the Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (with the estate stamp on the reverse).
Peter Carlberg Collection.
EXHIBITION: Galerie Gerd Rosen, Berlin 1957, cat. no. 12.
Collage on cardboard.
With a collaged monogram in lower right. Signed, dated and with an exhibition note on the reverse, as well as titled on a label. 29.9 x 19.5 cm (11.7 x 7.6 in). Cardboard: 34,5 x 26,2 cm (13,5 x 10,3 in).
[EH].
• From the collection of Peter Carlberg, the artist's nephew.
• Exhibited at Galerie Rosen, Berlin, in 1957.
• Hannah Höch – one of the most important female artists of Modernism in Germany.
• The Dada luminary Hannah Höch was a pioneer of the collage.
• Distanced and anti-romantic definition of a clowns
• Collages by Hannah Höch can be found at, among others, the Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (with the estate stamp on the reverse).
Peter Carlberg Collection.
EXHIBITION: Galerie Gerd Rosen, Berlin 1957, cat. no. 12.
Hannah Höch had been working with the medium of collage since the early 1920s. It seems as if this technique corresponded to her innermost being. She created enigmatic collages from precisely cut out finds from magazines. Accordingly, "Clown im entstehen"(Clown in the making) is conceived from a depiction of a blow-out. With anatomizing sharpness, the artist created a curtain of merriment from which she lets the ghost of the clown emerge. The grande dame of DADA, who was doomed to remain silent as a result of National Socialist oppression, mastered the art of the collage with perfection. Shortly after the Second World War, her works were shown again in Berlin, and as early as in 1948, she was represented in the exhibition "COLLAGE" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
402
Hannah Höch
Clown im entstehen, 1955.
Collage on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,500 Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820 (incl. surcharge)