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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Uniforfassen fur den Reichstag zu Worms
TRANSLATED TITLE: Come get your uniforms for the Reichstag at Worms
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Das Illustrierte Volksblatt", January 23, 1936, p. 64

1936
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.1 x 26.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24373
76:0076:0020

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 341.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Uniformfassen fur den Reichstag zu Worms" "Da das Reich rustet, mussen sich auch Hitlers Knappen rusten" "Fotomontage: John Heartfield" ["Because the Reich arms, Hitler's pages must also arm."]

NOTES: Catalogued 9/89, DZ. "Uniformfassen is a neologism based on Essenfassen, which is soldiers slang for come and get it. Rusten means both to arm or mobilize and to prepare. From left to right are Goring, Streicher, Schacht, and Goebbels." [Evans, p. 340]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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