Heartfield Archive Photos | 1940-1949 | Dadaist | Political Artist

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Heartfield Archive Photos | 1940-1949 | Dadaist | Political Artist

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CURATOR’S NOTE:

I wrote the captions, doing my best to make them historically accurate.

: Heartfield’s Freedom Montage, England, circa 1940

: A very ill John Heartfield in 1940 following his internment in English internment camp for being a German National, despite his devastating anti-Nazi political art.

: Panel 6 of the exhibition Allies Inside Germany (July 3-August 26, 1942). Photomontage entitled Five Minutes Before Twelve created by John Heartfield for this event.

: Attendance at the German Young Painters League, 1942

: Gertrud (Tutti) Fietz and John Heartfield, probably in Blackwater, England, 1947

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