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Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented at the MoMA

Hannah Höch - Untitled (Dada)

Hannah Höch (German, 1889–1978). Untitled (Dada). c. 1922.
Cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper on board. 9 3/4 × 13″ (24.8 × 33 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Merrill C. Berman Collection

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents ‘Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented’. December 13, 2020 – April 10, 2021.]]>

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The major exhibition “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” presents the political engagement, fearless and groundbreaking visual experimentation, and utopian aspirations of artists in the early 20th century. On view in The Robert B. Menschel Galleries, Engineer, Agitator, Constructor showcases the activities of historical avant-gardes, including galvanizing works of Dada, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism, and highlights such figures as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and Hannah Höch. Drawn from the Museum’s outstanding holdings from this period, the exhibition marks a recent acquisition of more than 300 works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the most significant collections of early 20th-century works on paper in private hands.

Organized by Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, and Adrian Sudhalter, Consulting Curator, with Jane Cavalier, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA.

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