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CHAPTER 11 WORLD WAR II ANDTHE POST-WAR YEARS CHAPTER 11 Go
to www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
Click on the Second World
War.
Click on War Artists and then click on John Heartfield. 1 Read the text about the German
war painter John Heartfield
and decide
if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the ones that
are false. 1 Helmet Herzfelde was born in
Hamburg, Germany in 1891. 2 His mother was a textile
worker and trade union activist. 3 In 1896 his family had to
escape to Austria because of their politics. 4 In 1909 Herzfelde became a
student at the School of Applied Art in Munich. 5 He worked as a designer before
moving to Berlin to study at the Arts and Crafts School. 6 During the Second World War
Herzfelde began working for Die
Neue Jugend,
an arts journal published by his brother. 7 While he was in the navy he
met George Grosz. 8 Herzfelde changed his name to
John Heartfield in protest against German pacifism. 9 Photomontage is achieved by
rearranging selected details of photographs to form a new and convincing
reality. 10 After the war he produced
many designs and posters for the German Communist Party. 11 Some members of the German
Dada group disliked Heartfield's ideas and work on photomontage. 12 In 1938 Heartfield left Germany
and he moved to America where he worked for Penguin Books. 13 He returned to Berlin in
1950, where be worked for the Berlin Deutsches Theater and the Berlin
Ensemble. 14 In 1960 he became professor
at the German Academy of Arts. Click on the words in blue, which are underlined, to find out more
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