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John Heartfield
John Heartfield (19 June 1891 in Berlin – 26 April 1968 in Berlin) is the English version of the name of the Germanphotomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld.
He started to call himself Heartfield in 1916, to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti-British sentiment in Germany during World War I.
Career
[change | change source]In 1918, Heartfield began at the BerlinDada scene, and the Communist Party of Germany.
He was thrown out of the Reichswehr film service because he supported the strike after the assassination of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
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With George Grosz, he founded Die Pleite, a satirical magazine. Heartfield started to work for two communist publications: the daily Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag)and the weekly Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ)(Workers' Illustrated Newspaper).
AIZ published Heartfield's most famous work[1]
In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Heartfield moved to Czechoslovakia,