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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ubermensch in Noten
TRANSLATED TITLE: Superman in Trouble
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Illustrierte Volksblatt", December 12, 1935, p. 800

1935
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
37.9 x 26.6 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24377
76:0076:0017

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 331.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Ubermensch In Noten" "Auf der nachsten Tagesordung des Volkerbundausschusses fur Sanktionen steht als wichtigster Punkt: Ausdehnung der Sanktionen auf Petroleum." ["The most important point on the next agenda of the League of Nations committee for sanctions: extensions of petroleum sanctions."] "Fotomontage: John Heartfield"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ. "'Zermurbender Kleinkrieg - Wendung an den Fronten in Abessinien' (Trying guerilla war - Change at the front in Abyssinia) was the lead article in this issue. In the version published in Wieland Herzfelde's John Heartfiled: Leben und Werk (p. 199), the reference to the League of Nations was dropped and a new subtitle added, Heiliger Rockefeller, steh mir bei! (Holy Rockefeller, stand by me!)." [Evans, p. 330]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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