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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Deutschland, Deutchland Über Alles

1929
photomechanical reproduction
23.9 x 18.8 cm. (each)
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 26340
90:0663:0001

INSCRIPTION: (front and rear covers of book: front-collage portrait; rear-hands on policeman's baton and hand on sword)

NOTES: Catalogued 2/2001, DZ. "A satire on Germany of the Weimar Republic. Heartfield had been an editor of --Der Dada-- and was a well-known creator of photo montage work. The covers of this book consist of onlaid paper elements... and are considered among the most significant of Heartfield's work and of the German Dada movement." [Book dealers description, clipped from catalogued and inserted in front of the book]

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