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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Die Lehre des Wolfes
TRANSLATED TITLE: The Teaching of the Wolf
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Das Illustrierte Volksblatt", November 21, 1935, p. 752

1935
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.1 x 26.7 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24391
76:0076:0013

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 325.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Composite Imagery 1850-1935 - The Early History of Photomontage", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, October 27, 1978 - February 18, 1979.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Die Lehre des Wolfes" "Der Begriff des "Tieres" ist abzulehnen. Er verdreht und verfalscht die Verschiedenheiten von Schaf, Huhn, Gans, Esel, Pferd, Hase, Kalb, Ziege, kurz jener Wesen, die nur dazu da sind, von mir gefressen zu werden." ["The term 'animal' is to be rejected. It distorts and falisfies the difference between sheep, chicken, goose, donkey, horse, hare, calf, goat, in short, those creatures who are only there to be eaten by me."]

NOTES: Catalogued 5/93, DZ. "During the Third Reich Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was professor of law at Berlin University. He joined the Nazi party in 1933 and became its leading legal and political theorist." [Evans, p. 324]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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