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Biography |
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1891 |
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Born Helmut Herzfelde in Berlin |
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1905 - 1906 |
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Served an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Wiesbaden |
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1908 - 1911 |
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Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich |
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1914 |
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Studied at the Kunst- und Handwerkerschule |
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1915 - 1916 |
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Inducted for active service into the German armed forces |
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1916 |
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Protested the anti-British feeling in Germany by changing his name to John Heartfield, using this pseudonym for the rest of his career |
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1916 |
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John Heartfield and his brother founded the Malik Verlag publishing house in Berlin |
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1917 |
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Became a follower of the Dada movement in Berlin and that same year he joined the German Communist Party (KPD) |
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1920 |
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Designed his first stage sets for Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt |
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1929 |
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Contributed photomontages to Kurt Tucholsky's "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" |
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1924 - 1933 |
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Designed illustrations for the "Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung", the Communist Party mouthpiece |
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1933 |
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Went into exile in Prague |
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1938 |
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Reached London, where among other things he designed book covers for Penguin Books |
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1950 |
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Returned to Germany and designed stage sets, working for Bertold Brecht and other directors |
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1968 |
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Died in Berlin |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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John Heartfield - Zeitausschnitte - Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
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2009 |
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Darwin - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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2008 |
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John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (solo) |
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2008 |
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We Have Never Met Before [...] - Standard (Oslo), Oslo |
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2008 |
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Cut & Pastec - European Photomontage 1920-1945 - Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (England) |
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2008 |
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Hitler blind und Stalin lahm. Marinus und Heartfield - Politische Fotomontagen der 1930er Jahre - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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2008 |
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Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System. Kunst im Zeitalter des Geistigen Eigentums - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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2008 |
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Foto: Modernity in Central europe 1918-1945 - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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2008 |
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Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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2008 |
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Foto: Modernity In Central Europe, 1918–1945 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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2008 |
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Paul McCarthy´s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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2007 |
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Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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2007 |
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Raum - Orte der Kunst - AdK - AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Berlin |
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2006 |
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John Heartfield - Photomontages Politiques 1930-1938 - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg (solo) |
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2006 |
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Agitated images. John Heartfield and German photomontage - The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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2005 |
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War is over - 1945 - 2005 la libertá dell'arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
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2005 |
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Mimesis. Realismos Modernos 1918-1945 - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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2005 |
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Avant Garde Graphics - 1918-34 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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2005 |
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Making Things Public - Atmosphären der Demokratie - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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2005 |
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Just do it! - Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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2004 |
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Variaciones en España - Fotografía y Arte 1900 - 1980 - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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2004 |
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Pieced Together: Photomontage from the Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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2003 |
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Geografie del mistero. Metafisica, dada, surrealismo - Il Narciso Galleria d´arte contemporanea, Rome |
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2003 |
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Grotesk! - 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich |
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2001 |
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VOX 2001 - Kent Gallery, New York City, NY |
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1999 |
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Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Coll - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City, NY |
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1999 |
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Zeit/Los - Zur Kunstgeschichte der Zeit - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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1998 |
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Signaturen des Sichtbaren - Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt |
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1993 |
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John Heartfield: Photomontages - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1991 |
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John Heartfield - Kent Gallery, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1978 |
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Grosz, Heartfield, Höch, Uhlmann - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
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Public Collections
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, France
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA
The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA |
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