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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Fantasie zweier Ostpaktjager
TRANSLATED TITLE: Fantasy of two Eastern Pact hunters
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Das Illustrierte Volksblatt", February 7, 1935, p. 96

1935
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.2 x 26.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24388
76:0076:0014

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 293.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Fantasie zweier Ostpaktjager" "Fotomontage: John Heartfield" "Reichsjagermeister Goring zum polnischen Aussenminister Beck: 'Lassen Sie mir den Hals des Baren, Herr Kollege,dann lasse ich Ihnen den Steiss.'" [Reich Master of the Hounds Goring to the Polish foreign minister Beck: 'You leave me the neck of the bear, Herr colleague, and I will leave you the rump.'"]

NOTES: Catalogued 9/89, DZ. "Heartfield adapted a photograph of Goring that appeared on the cover of the previous issue of AIZ. Josef Beck (1894-1944), Polish foreign minister from 1932 to 1939, was architect of the German-Polish nonaggression pact of 1934. The constellation "Grosser Bar" (Great Bear) represents the Soviet Union." [Evans, p. 292]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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