Hannah Höch
Born 1889 Gotha, Germany
Died 1978 Berlin, Germany

Hannah Höch was born on November 1, 1889, in Gotha, Germany, as Anna Therese Johanne Höch. The eldest of five children, Höch grew up in a comfortable, small-town bourgeois environment. Her father, Friedrich Höch, worked as a supervisor at an insurance company and her mother, Rosa Höch, née Sachs, was an amateur painter. When she was fifteen, her parents took her out of the Girls' High School to care for her newborn sister, Marianne. Höch was not able to continue her education until six years later, when she enrolled in the School of Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She studied glass design with Harold Bengen from 1912 until the onset of World War I in 1914, wh...