biography
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Heartfield, John
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originally Helmut Herzfelde
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| lived:
| (1891–1968)
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| biography:
| German photomonteur and painter. Together with George Grosz, he was a leading member of the Berlin Dada group in the aftermath of World War 1, producing satirical collages from pasted, superimposed photographs cut from magazines. A lifelong pacifist and staunch Communist, he moved to East Berlin in 1950, and anglicized his name as a gesture of sympathy with America. |
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