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Call Number:

PH-00429

Collection Name:

John Heartfield (a.k.a. Helmut Herzfeld) Photography Collection

Creator:

Heartfield, John, 1891-1968 (1891-06-19 - 1968-04-26)

No. of Items:

12 items

Span Dates:

1924-1938

Description:

The collection consists of twelve loose plates from the portfolio John Heartfield, 33 Fotomontagen (Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1976) by John Heartfield (German photomontagist, draftsman, and typographer, 1891-1968). The plates, all collotypes, measure 48 x 64 cm (18 7/8 x 25 1/4 in) and are accompanied by two sheets of printed titles in Russian, French, Spanish, and English. Plate information follows.

976:0017:0001 -- Plate 1, Ten years later: Fathers and sons, 1924;
976:0017:0002 -- Plate 2, The hand has 5 fingers / With 5 you seize the enemy / Vote List 5 / Communist Party, 1928;
976:0017:0003 -- Plate 7, How to Make Dollars, (book cover 1931);
976:0017:0004 -- Plate 16, Pillars of society: "Everything is in perfect order." , 1933;
976:0017:0005 -- Plate 18, The accuser. The accused, 1933;
976:0017:0006 -- Plate 19, The slogan of the Nazi Reich: Blood and Iron, 1934;
976:0017:0007 -- Plate 20, "We pray to the power of the bomb", 1934;
976:0017:0008 -- Plate 24, Hurrah, the butter is finished! , 1935;
976:0017:0009 -- Plate 25, Fascist memorial, 1936;
976:0017:0010 -- Plate 26, To the unknown comrade, 1936;
976:0017:0011 -- Plate 28, Warning: If you do not stand together, the war will kill you too, 1937;
976:0017:0012 -- Plate 29, Hooded men of the stock exchange, 1938.

Accession No(s):

976:0017:0001-0012

Location(s):

Flat File (976:0017:0001-0012)
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