John Heartfield
Germany (1891—1969)After studying arts and crafts in Munich and Berlin, he began working as a commercial artist and soon after met George Grosz, who introduced him to a new approach to art. In 1917 he joined the Berlin Club Dada. In 1920 he organised the First International Dada Fair and worked with the Malik-Verlag publishing company to create dust jackets for books introducing photography and develop his concept of ‘photomontage’. He created The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace!. With the Nazis’ rise to power, Heartfield fled to Czechoslovakia and later to the UK. After the war he returned to East Germany, where he continued his artistic work and collaborated with the theatre. He was later recognised by the Akademie der Künste. He continued to dedicate himself to theatre, designing costumes and stage sets.
