AIZ 11, number 42, 16 October 1932, p. 985
THE MEANING OF THE HITLER SALUTE:
Little man asks for big gifts
Motto:
MILLIONS STAND BEHIND ME!
JOHN HEARTFIELD: Photomontages 1930 - 38
30 March thru 15 June 1991
Kent Fine Art presented an exhibition of John Heartfield's photomontages from the publication Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, or Worker's Illustrated Press. The exhibition included all 236 images Heartfield published in AIZ between 1930 and 1938, and all were from the private collection of Marco Pinkus, Zurich, subsequently acquired by IVAM in Valencia. In addition, also included were four rare original paste-ups that Heartfield made for AIZ, on loan from the Heartfield Archiv of the Akademie der Kunste zu Berlin. John Heartfield was born Helmut Herzfeld in Berlin in 1891 and trained as a graphic artist in Munich in 1908-11. He changed his name in 1916, according to legend as protest against the xenophobia then rampant in Germany. In the late 1910s he played a key role in founding the Berlin wing of DADA and collaborated extensively with George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Hanna Hoch, along with his brother and lifelong artistic partner, Wieland Herzfelde.
JOHN HEARTFIELD
AIZ/VI 1930-1938
Format: Hardcover. First Edition 1992
Condition: Perfect and uncirculated
This publication catalogues the highly influential, anti-fascist photomontages the German artist created for the prominent working-class magazine Arbeiter-Illustierte Zeitnung (AIZ) and its later iteration Volks Illustrierte (VI). These works transformed photography into a searing satirical weapon against the rising National Socialist Party (Nazis). John Heartfield and George Grosz began experimenting with photomontage, a term coined by the Berlin Dadaists, in 1915 or 1916. During the 1920’s and 1930’s Heartfield developed photomontage into a powerful satirical tool he was to use throughout his career. This is the catalogue raisonne for his best known body of work published between 1930 and 1938 in the magazine Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (Worker’s Illustrated Paper, renamed Volks Illustrierte form 1936 to 1938). Extensive text , translations into English, and plate notes authored by David Evans. Edited by Anna Lundgren. (Kent Gallery, New York, 1992.
524 pp., 247 color plates. Clothbound with Dustjacket
ISBN-1-878607-28-6