John Heartfield
He was born in 1891 and he was actually Helmut Herzfeld but he changed his name because he wanted to protest World War I. John Heartfield remains the best known anti-Nazi political activist. During the WWI he became a member of the Berlin DADA Group and he was working on the collage as political theme, journals of day. He was enjoying with reorganizing images and text without any specific rules or order. When National Socialist come to Germany, he relocated to Czech and he started work at AIZ which known as socialist newspaper. At that time, he started working on photomontage.
One of his more famous pieces, made in 1935 entitled Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! (English..: Hurray, the butter is gone!) was published on the frontpage of the AIZ in 1935.
Before he moved to England, he was protesting Fascism and he expressed his thought through photomontage and collages. Heartfield returned to Germany in 1950 where he designed scenery and posters for the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1960 he became professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin. John Heartfield died in Berlin on 26th April, 1968.
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