Heartfield Archive Photos | 1960-1968 | Dadaist | Political Artist
These John Heartfield Portraits Have Been Previously Published
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FACES 1860-1919 1920-1929 1930-1934 1935-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1968
CURATOR’S NOTE:
I wrote the captions, doing my best to make them historically accurate.
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John Heartfield in his office at the Akademie Der Künste, 1960. It is clear from this photograph how much of his art is kept locked away from his public in the Heartfield Archiv of the unified Akademie Der Künste.
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This is not a Montage. This is not Satire. This is Self-Exposure. Throughout his life, whatever his political convictions, John Heartfield was first and foremost a pacifist. He devoted his entire life to exposing the ignorance, suffering, and profit inherent in war. July 7, 1960.
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John Heartfield with Prague AIZ magazine retouchers Hubner and Hnizdo during a celebration of Heartfield’s seventieth birthday, Berlin, 1961.
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John Heartfield at the Gertraud Cemetary, Gustrow, 1962.
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John Heartfield and his wife, Gertrud (Tutti), in 1968. Tutti was a wonderful woman, extremely intelligent and kind. We wrote loving letters to each other after the death of my grandfather. I thought of her as a grandmother.
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A 1968 photo of John and Gertrud Heartfield’s apartment on Friedrichstasse in East Berlin
