John Heartfield was a prolific artist, a pioneer of modern photomontage who was born Helmut Herzfeld in Berlin in 1891. Heartfield hated the war so much that he even feigned madness to avoid returning to the military service. He later joined the Dada group of Berlin, and he’s remembered for being the first person to organize the first international Dada Fair in Berlin in 1920. Like many German Artist of his time, Heartfield was anti-fascist and a communist. His art was also revolutionary when it came to technique and taste. Most of Heartfield's art was targeted at Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany. Heartfield uses is skill ofphotomontage to expose the contradiction between Adolf Hitler's anti-capitalist rhetoric and his pro-capitalist practices.
Image above: The German Dada movement was born out of hatred for war. Many Dada members felt that the war would have been avoided had it not been for the greedy of the rich people. The result of the the war is destruction to makind, and that include both rich and pooer. This image represents the end results of greediness. Here the hynna is stepping on the corposes of victims of the war. The Hynna represents the powerful whose aim is to destroy mankind.
Image above: In this art, Heartfield portrayed Hitler as someone who was not thinking properly, as someone who was not using his brain.
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