* Hannah Höch [German, 1889-1978]-Fruhlings-Messe Der Kunstgewerbe Gruppe,:-circa 1925, lithograph printed by H.Gellert, Berlin W.3035 x 46.5cm, laid-down on card, unframed.* Provenance From a Private Collection, in a deceased estate, of art exhibition, film and advertising posters, the remainder to be offered in these rooms on 6/7th November and 3rd December.* Hannah Höch is known for woodcuts, linocuts and Dada photo-montages clipped from contemporary magazines that probe Weimar-era politics and culture. Höch was connected with the Dada movement and was indeed the only woman associated with the Berlin Dadaists Group.Frühlings-Messe der Kunstgewerbe Gruppe (Spring Fair of the Applied Arts Group) was however created at the height of Höch's engagement with Constructivism and in true Constructivist practice Höch successfully drew attention to the work's message in a union of text and image. Adopting the Russian Constructivists' preference for red and black she has tempered the combination with warm off-white paper, integrating it so that it reads not only as geometric form but also as lettering and backdrop. The composition shifts from abstraction to figuration and back again. Colour relationships likewise shift and one aspect of the work is that Höch maximizes the effect of printing only two colours, creating a design that is complex yet distinct.Germany's so-called New Woman was the focus of Höch's work in the 1920s, and this lithograph was made for the German Lyceum Club, an elite women's association. The features of the woman in Frühlings-Messe; a round face, striking eyes, rigid nose and bisected mouth, evoke masks from Africa and Oceania, and Höch shared the German Expressionists' interest in tribal art, evident elsewhere in her series From an Ethnographic Museum, begun about the same time as this work.