09.08.2023 | 21:00 Uhr
currently closed
John Heartfield, Dada ist Gross und John ist sein Prophet, 1920, © The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
John Heartfield. Fotomonteur
Programmed by Hans Winkler.
“Fotomonteur” is part of a trilogy on the history of 20th-century art and emerged from a year-long study of the most rebellious expressions of German artists. As a co-founder of DADA Berlin, John Heartfield’s posters and book covers reached a large audience in the 1920s and 1930s. The power of political photomontage, based on its mass distribution, became a feared political weapon. The film offers an art-historical view that focuses on the rare moments in German history when aesthetic and political radicalism went hand in hand for a short distance.
Helmut Herbst, John Heartfield. Fotomonteur, 1976, 63 min
In collaboration with the exhibition project “DADA is BIG. John Heartfield in Salzburg.”
