John Heartfield was born on 19 June 1891 in Berlin, he died on 26 April 1968 in East Berlin, Heartfield is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. He chose to call himself Heartfield in 1916 to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War I.
He was a tradditional photomontager he didint use any computer software but he was using other pictures by cutting them up and sticking them on top of other images so they look like a montage.
Some examples of his work:
His most famous photomontages scathingly mock Hitler and the Nazi party, revealing Hitler as a money-grubbing demagogue. He uses a lot of Nazi and Hitler pictures and stuff like he uses the Nazi sign very often in his work
Hannah Höch was born on November 1 1889 till May 31 1978 she was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.
Hannah Hoch was born Anna Therese Johanne Hoch in Gotham Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin the guidance of Harold Bergen. She chose the glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school to work with the Red Cross. IN 1915 she returned to schooling, entering the graphics class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Some of her work:
Hannah Hoch uses a lot of pictures of people in her work and she uses a lot of diffrent pictures its like a mixture of diffrent pictures her work is quiet Abstract.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 lived till 8 January 1948 he was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
His work is very abstract he uses a lot of different random shapes and pictures and words
Some examples of his work:
Like i said before his work is very abstract he uses a lot of random stuff in his work like diffrent shapes and words
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