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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Antwort Auf Ein Nazi-Plakat
TRANSLATED TITLE: Reply to a Nazi Poster
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Illustrierte Volksblatt", June 10, 1936, p. 384

1936
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.0 x 26.7 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24393
76:0076:0009

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 375.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Antwort Auf Ein Nazi-Plakat" "Wir starben fur Euch! Und ihr wollt uns verraten?" "Nein! Und darum darf Hitler das Verbrechen von 1914 nicht wiederholen!" ["We died for you! And you want to betray us?" "No! And that is why Hitler must not be allowed to repeat the crime of 1914!"] "Montiert: John Heartfield"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ. "The Nazis had reused a 1918 poster design depicting German frontline soldiers fearing a 'stab in the back' by politicians. The 'shame' of the Treaty of Versailles was a recurrent Nazi theme." [Evans, p. 374]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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