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German Dada artist Hannah Hoch’s photomontage entitled “German Girl” (1930) illustrates an image of a conventional young German girl. The collage is supposed to be a representation of the features that are considered to be normal according to the German public, however the mix-matched and distorted features of the figure elucidates a deeper meaning of Hoch’s, in which she questions how one can define what is normal? Such a message correlates with the ideals of Dadaist artists who sought to create “anti-art”, as a means of protesting the logical and traditional art aesthetics prior to World War I. Seen as a revolutionary artist for her development of the technique of photomontaging, Hannah Hoch’s crafty and chaotic work was an influential and inspirational product of the Dadaist art movement in Weimar, Germany. A homosexual and feminist advocate, Hoch’s artwork encompassed a recurring theme of the “New Woman” in which she constantly juxtaposed the conventions set up for women in regards to their sexuality, their roles in society, and the standards on which they are judged as beautiful.. Ultimately, Hoch’s work centered on redefining women and erasing the defined gender roles of the 1930’s.