Hannah Höch (1889–1978), a leading figure of the Berlin Dada movement, was a true collage artist. In her diary, in 1939, she wrote: “I spent days leafing through magazines and cutting out images.”

An album, presumably created in 1933, reveals the richness of Höch’s visual archive and raises intriguing questions as a singular work within her artistic production. Was it intended as a collection of motifs for collages and photomontages? Was it conceived as a modern sketchbook? Could it even represent an early step toward conceptual art?

The album consists of 114 pages — assembled from two issues of the magazine Die Dame — and humorously combines more than four hundred photographic images collected, cut out, and pasted by the artist. The themes include nature, technology, sport, dance, the New Woman, cinema, and ethnology; particularly striking are the numerous female nudes.

The album of complete works of Hannah Höch.