Collage Book – Through the Sketchbook

For a short time in 1939 Hannah Hoch concentrates on gathering images in scrapbook albums (100+), and creates an ‘encyclopedia of images’. While her collages combine pictures from magazines and papers, the album is a file with juxtapositions of whole images. It is found after the artist’s death, and publishes in 2004/2007.

Magazine paper and newspaper on paper.

Artist: Hannah Hoch.

Hannah Hoch estate collection at Berlinische Gallerie, Museum of Modern Art.

Hannah Höch, Album, c. 1933. Softcover. 132 pages. Hatje Cantz; Ltd. 2004 & 2007.

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.