![]() Through this new form of art he exrecises social criticism. He works in a field that he created himself, the field of photomontage. “John Heartfield is one of the most important European artists. And the “Obama-Joker” created by Firas Alkhateeb earlier this year. John Heartfield’s creation “Adolph the superman, swallows gold and spouts junk”, a political poster that circulated in Germany, in 1932. A text printed on the back of the album System of a Down reads: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create".Two examples of political photomontage, from the Nazi period and today. The Heartfield piece The Hand has 5 Fingers with its original text: "5 fingers make a hand! With these 5 grab the enemy!", was referenced by alternative metal band System of a Down. Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! served as the inspiration behind the song " Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" by Siouxsie & the Banshees the song was re-recorded in German and released as a single with Heartfield's work as the cover art. The picture makes fun of a speech Goering made, the quote is shortened to "Guns before butter" Translated, the quote reads: " Iron has always made a nation strong, butter and lard have only made the people fat". Below, the title is written in large letters, in addition to a quote by Hermann Goering during food shortage. The family - mother, father, old woman, young man, baby, and dog - are trying to eat pieces of metal, such as chains, bicycle handlebars, and rifles. The photomontage shows a family at a kitchen table, where a nearby portrait of Hitler hangs and the wallpaper is covered with swastikas. One of his more famous pieces, made in 1935 entitled Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! (English: Hurray, The Butter is All Gone!) was published on the frontpage of the AIZ in 1935. His photomontages satirising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis often used Nazi symbols such as the swastika to change their propaganda message. In 2005, Tate Britain held an exhibition of his photomontage pieces. After World War II he settled in East Germany, after 1954 he lived in East Berlin and worked closely with theatre directors such as Benno Besson and Wolfgang Langhoff at Berliner Ensemble and Deutsches Theater. In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Heartfield moved to Czechoslovakia, where he continued his photomontage work for the AIZ (which was published in exile) in 1938, the Nazis were preparing to invade Czechoslovakia, so he moved to England, and lived in Hampstead, London. AIZ published Heartfield's most famous work 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). With George Grosz, he founded Die Pleite, a satirical magazine. He was thrown out of the Reichswehr film service because he supported the strike after the assassination of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. In 1918, Heartfield began at the Berlin Dada scene, and the Communist Party of Germany. He started to call himself Heartfield in 1916, to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti- British sentiment in Germany during World War I. John Heartfield ( Jin Berlin – Apin Berlin) is the English version of the name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld.
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