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Born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891, he anglicised his name to John Heartfield in response to German anglophobia during World War I. He was one of the first artists to use photomontage (combining whole or parts of photographs with text to communicate a new message) as a political weapon: "New political problems demand new means of propaganda. For this task photography possesses the greatest power of persuasion." Inspired by the October Revolution, he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1918.

Exposing Nazism, and its leaders, to ridicule was Heartfield's main aim in the 30s. 'The Meaning of the Hitler Salute' shows Hitler's right hand accepting a wad of bank notes from a gigantic bourgeois standing behind him. "Little man requests big donation. Motto: Millions are behind me."

Käthe Kollwitz biography

Käthe Kollwitz museum

Frans Masereel (1889-1972)

Art to the People - Crane, Steinlen, Hahn, Masereel, Arntz

Pablo Picasso

Posters of the Spanish Revolution

Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China

Communist Homepage - Pictures of Lenin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Mao Tse Tung. Postcards from Stalin, Russian posters e.a. (English)

The Lenin Mausoleum

Central Lenin Museum

Constructivisme

The International Constructivisme Page

The Russian Avantgarde Home

Vladimir Mayakovsky, an online exhibit (USA)

The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky

Mayakovsky. His Life, His Art, Photographs, Poems

El Lissitsky, typographer

El Lissitsky, some works

El Lissitsky, another page

Alexander Rodchenko, portfolios

Alexander Rodchenko. Type and design come together in Russia

Laslo Moholy-Nagy, some photos

USSR

USSR in Construction, 1930-1940. By focusing on a single theme or initiative in each issue of this magazine, the contributing artists produced a work which effectively conveyed the heroic efforts of the Soviet people in fulfilling the objectives to transform the country into a highly developed and productive world power.

Soviet War Photography, War photographs by Soviet photojournalists of the Second World War

Yevgeni Khaldei, one of the most significant photojournalists of the 20th-century. Covered all 1,481 days of the War between Russia and Germany as a correspondent for the Tass News Agency and much of this work was published in Pravda.

Gustav Kucis, photos and posters

Some Soviet posters

Even More Soviet Political Posters

Wladimir Tatlin. Denkmal für die III. Internationale

The "New Gallery" Art Foundation - specializes on Soviet art of Socialist Realism of the 1920-1950-s.

Film

Joris Ivens 100 - Centenary Celebrations

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Songs

Un homenaje a Victor Jara

Homenaje a Victor Jara

Vida y canciones de Victor Jara