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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Neueste Muster der Nazi-Lebensmittelindustrie 1936
TRANSLATED TITLE: Latest samples of the Nazi food industry 1936
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Illustrierte Volksblatt", January 9, 1936, p. 32

1936
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.2 x 26.6 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24385
76:0076:0021

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 339.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Neueste Muster der Nazi-Lebensmittelindustrie 1936" ["Latest samples of the Nazi food industry 1936"] "Fotomontage: John Heartfield"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ. "The 'samples' are 'Hitlers Reden/Garantiert arischer Fuhrer-schmalz" (Hitler's speeches/guaranteed Aryan Fuhrer lard); 'Delikatess- Katzenschinken' (delicatessen cat ham); 'Prima Loch-Kase' (grade A cheese with holes); 'Deutsches Streckkotelett' (German stretched cutlet [note that 'das Streckbett' is the rack]); '1a Fleisch im eigenen Saft' (finest butter in oil tubes); 'ERZ in Blauband mit dem Schwan Frisch Gekirnt' (ore in the blue band with the swan, freshly churned). The last is a reference to Goring's 'guns before butter' speech (Schwan in Blauband, or Swan in Blue Band, was a brand of margarine.) [Evans, p. 338]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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