Galerie St. Etienne

John Heartfield

(German, 1891–1968)

John Heartfield

O Joyful, O Blessed, Miracle-Bringing Time, 1935

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1891: Born Helmut Herzfelde in Berlin
1905 - 1906: Served an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Wiesbaden
1908 - 1911: Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich
1914: Studied at the Kunst- und Handwerkerschule
1915 - 1916: Inducted for active service into the German armed forces
1916: Protested the anti-British feeling in Germany by changing his name to John Heartfield, using this pseudonym for the rest of his career
: John Heartfield and his brother founded the Malik Verlag publishing house in Berlin
1917: Became a follower of the Dada movement in Berlin and that same year he joined the German Communist Party (KPD)
1920: Designed his first stage sets for Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt
1924 - 1933: Designed illustrations for the "Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung", the Communist Party mouthpiece
1929: Contributed photomontages to Kurt Tucholsky's "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"
1933: Went into exile in Prague
1938: Reached London, where among other things he designed book covers for Penguin Books
1950: Returned to Germany and designed stage sets, working for Bertold Brecht and other directors
1968: Died in Berlin

Exhibitions

2009: John Heartfield - Zeitausschnitte - Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
: Darwin - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
: Paul McCarthy´s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1 - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Foto: Modernity In Central Europe, 1918–1945 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Foto: Modernity in Central europe 1918-1945 - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
: Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System. Kunst im Zeitalter des Geistigen Eigentums - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
: Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
: Cut & Pastec - European Photomontage 1920-1945 - Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (England)
: We Have Never Met Before [...] - Standard (Oslo), Oslo
2008: John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (solo)
: Hitler blind und Stalin lahm. Marinus und Heartfield - Politische Fotomontagen der 1930er Jahre - Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2007: Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Raum - Orte der Kunst - AdK - AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Berlin
2006: John Heartfield - Photomontages Politiques 1930-1938 - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg (solo)
: Agitated images. John Heartfield and German photomontage - The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Just do it! - Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
: Making Things Public - Atmosphären der Demokratie - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2005: 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
: Mimesis. Realismos Modernos 1918-1945 - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
: Avant Garde Graphics - 1918-34 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
2004: Variaciones en España - Fotografía y Arte 1900 - 1980 - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
: Pieced Together: Photomontage from the Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003: Geografie del mistero. Metafisica, dada, surrealismo - Il Narciso Galleria d´arte contemporanea, Rome
: Grotesk! - 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich
2001: VOX 2001 - Kent Gallery, New York City, NY
1999: Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Coll - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City, NY
: Zeit/Los - Zur Kunstgeschichte der Zeit - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
1998: Signaturen des Sichtbaren - Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt
1993: John Heartfield: Photomontages - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo)
1991: John Heartfield - Kent Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
1978: Grosz, Heartfield, Höch, Uhlmann - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
: 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