“Not a single work – be it a poster book cover, endpaper, illustration or whatever – lacks a witty, political punch line; nowhere is the impact achieved by coarse, non artistic means, yet everywhere these means clearly serve the effect […] Often it is a very simple, though always an intellectual idea that [brings about] the political mass impact.”
Combative Art Amsterdam (Kämpfende Kunst Amsterdam). John Heartfield Warns Of Fascism. Holland, 1946
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Lou Scheper, John Heartfield Exhibition Reviewer
Combative Art Amsterdam (Kämpfende Kunst Amsterdam). John Heartfield Warns Of Fascism. Holland, 1946
Heartfield displays works in the exhibition Combative Art Amsterdam (Kämpfende Kunst Amsterdam) in Basel in 1946.
In 1946, there’s another Heartfield exhibition in Amsterdam: Sturmzeichen.
John Heartfield’s Warnungen vor Krieg und Faschismus (Signs of Storm. John Heartfield’s Warning of War and Fascism).
Professor John J Heartfield is John Heartfield’s paternal grandson. He gives live interactive presentations around the world that focus on his grandfather’s life and work and modern political art. Please write to him to request his presence at your event or ask any question. He is always pleased to hear from exhibition visitors.
