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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Das Spiel Der Nazis Mit Dem Feuer
TRANSLATED TITLE: The Nazis Playing With Fire
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Illustrierte Volksblatt", February 28, 1935, p. 129

1935
PUBLISHER: Abreiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.5 x 26.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24386
76:0076:0007

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 297.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography between the Wars", US, CA, San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, August 28 - October 20, 1991. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Das Spiel Der Nazis Mit Dem Feuer" "AIZ" "Erscheint wochentlich einmal. Preis 1,60 Kc., 40 Gr., 1,25 Frs., 30 Rp., 20 Pfg., 10 am. Cts., 15 holl. Cts. Jahrgang XIV Nummer 9 28. Februarss 1935" "'Wenn die Welt erst brennt, werden wir schon beweisen, daB Moskau der Brandstifter war." "Fotomontage: John Heartfield" ["When the world eventually burns, we will manage to prove that Moscow was the arsonist."]

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ. "Heartfield's cover was immediately followed by a two-page article on the second anniversary of the Reichstag fire that reiterated the view that the fire was an anti-Communist provication by the Nazis, masterminded by Goring." [Evans, p. 296]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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