John Heartfield Documentaries. Art As A Weapon Against Fascism, Ignorance, Bigotry & War
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John Heartfield Video
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John J Heartfield Collection Video is an expanding collection of rare video of John Heartfield from the collection of John Heartfield’s grandson.
Documentaries is a collection of documentaries about John Heartfield.
Video Features is a growing collection of video directly related to John Heartfield’s life and work.
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John Heartfield, Fotomonteur, 1979
CONTENT: John Heartfield, Fotomonteur (Photomontage Artist) is an entertaining documentary on the life and art of John Heartfield: German Dada artist, photomontage pioneer, groundbreaking graphic designer, and influential theatre production designer.
Helmut Herbst, the director and screenwriter, was kind enough to allow the curator to present the first five minutes of Part 1 on YouTube. The curator especially enjoys the interesting narration and Mr. Herbst use of political and dada video montage. It is not widely known that, as a young man, John Heartfield worked in film and was fascinated by film editing.
John Heartfield, Kunstler des Volkes, 1959
CONTENT: The 1959 documentary Künstler des Volkes features John Heartfield, German Dada artist, photomontage pioneer, groundbreaking graphic designer, and influential theatre production designer.
Heartfield’s 240 photomontages for Germany’s AIZ magazine covers from 1930-1938 were a cinematic indictment of the rise of the Third Reich. Heartfield’s use of “art as a weapon” while living in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin made him number-five on the Gestapo’s most wanted list.
Heartfield Documentaries
The exhibition features documentaries on Dada anti-fascist activist artist John Heartfield. Heartfield was much more than the founder of photo montage. an art form he used as a political weapon against Adolf Hitler and his allies. He was also one of the most important graphic designers of the twentieth century.
Heartfield constantly risked his life to expose the insanity of Hitler’s Third Reich. His anti-fascist anti-Nazi art made him number five on Hitler’s most-wanted life. He continued to produce stunning art against fascism and bigotry as he ran for his life throughout World War II.
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