John Heartfield - Fathers and Sons, 1924

John Heartfield - Fathers and Sons, 1924

(Modernism in Central Europe - Exhibition at the Washington National Gallery)

Helmut Herzfeld chose to call himself John Heartfield in 1916, as a protest against the anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War I. Under the influence of Brecht he chose the photomontage as a form of strong political expression. Heartfield activated within the Communist Party of Germany and worked for Die Rothe Fahne and for A-I-Z (Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung). After the arrival of Hitler at power, Heartfield left Germany - he moved to Czechoslovakia, then to England. After World War II he settled in East Germany (Wikipedia)




(Modernism in Central Europe)