{"id":2081,"date":"2013-02-07T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/this-day-in-gallery-history-1984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:59:40","slug":"this-day-in-gallery-history-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/this-day-in-gallery-history-1984","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Gallery History: 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image-300x238.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re taking a look back in our archives to a 1984 exhibition of work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=118\">German Dada artist Hannah H\u00f6ch <\/a>(1889-1978).&nbsp;&nbsp;As the sole female member of the German Dada group (George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Johannes Bader, Richard Huelsenbeck and John Heartfield), H\u00f6ch was an early pioneer of photomontage, the format she utilized to voice her criticisms of the Weimar German Government and to champion women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the rise of the Nazi regime, H\u00f6ch\u2019s work lost acclaim and during the war she retreated to obscurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, H\u00f6ch continued to make work and exhibit internationally until her death in 1978, and in 1997, The Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see more works by Hannah H\u00f6ch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=118\">please visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMAGE:&nbsp;Zweigesichtig, circa 1928,&nbsp;collage,&nbsp;4 \u00bd x 6 \u00bd in. 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