John Heartfield: German photomontage artist.

John Heartfield (formerly Helmut Herzfeld) was a German artist born in 1891. He is best remembered for his anti-Nazi propaganda. He was a communist and a feature on the initial Berlin DADA scene. Choosing photomontage as a form of political and artistic representation, he was published largely in the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (The Workers Pictoral Newspaper). After the rise of National Socialism in Germany in 1933, he fled to Czechoslovakia and in 1938, to England. He returned to East Germany in 1954, where he died in 1968. These photographs were published in the AIZ from exile Czechoslovakia.

1(7 June 1934, Dialogue in the Berlin Zoo [the monkey is reading an anti-semitic newspaper])

2(31 may 1934, As in the Middle Ages...So in the Third Reich)

3(19 December 1935, Hurrah! All the butter is gone [quote from Hermann Goering during the food shortage, 'iron has always made a nation stong, butter and lard have only made people fat'.])

(source: towson)