set gDates = [[], [0, " ", "The Sunday Times, Aug 9, 1992"]]
set gName = getat(["Heartfield"],1)
@[]##FLYING ELEPHANTS
The first Dada Manifesto of the Berlin Dada Club in 1918 called for an art 'which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day'#The first International Dada Fair held in Berlin in 1920 included "The Prussian Archangel", a stuffed dummy with a papier-mache pig's head and a German officer's uniform. The Dadaists were prosecuted for insulting the German army#In 1924 Heartfield became secretary of the newly-formed Red Group of Communist Artists committed to producing revolutionary propaganda#Heartfield did not do his own photography. He employed photographers who worked under his supervision, guided by his detailed pencil sketches#One photographer who worked for Heartfield said that he hated photographers "for all the nuances we are unable to perceive"#In 1931 Heartfield visited the Soviet Union. He produced a Lenin montage which was later converted into a mural for a Moscow street#The term photomontage had its origin in the use of the term 'montiert' or 'montieren' by Grosz and Heartfield abbreviated to 'mont' which was stamped on their works intend of a signature#Heartfield was the son of a socialist poet and textile worker. He joined the Communist Party in 1918 with his brother Weiland Herzfelde and George Grosz
