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ENGLAND/GERMANY/FRANCE, John Heartfield, 1979, a bronze medal by R.W.F. Searle for the Club...
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Searle, Ronald William Fordham (British, 1920-2011); b. Cambridge
ENGLAND/GERMANY/FRANCE, John Heartfield, 1979, a bronze medal by R.W.F. Searle for the Club français de la Médaille, half-length facing portrait, holding a pair of scissors used on photomontages, Adolf Hitler represented as a satirical pike’s head at left, rev. allegory of a fox in uniform delivering a lecture to the people, edge impressed cu 1979 no. 14/100 and cornucopia, 76mm, 307.94g (CGMP p.1704; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.86, 202-4; cf. Elsen 116, 2369). Extremely fine, as made; in black box of issue £40-£60
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Edition of 100. John Heartfield (1891-1968), b Helmut Herzfeld, Berlin, visual artist; abandoned by his parents at the age of 8, he studied art in Munich and, back in his native Berlin and to protest against the anti-British fervour sweeping Germany, he began styling himself ‘John Heartfield’. An early Dadaist, he joined the Communist party and produced the first political photomontages, mainly criticising fascism and Nazism, but fled Germany in 1933 for Czechoslovakia, and then England in 1938, where he was interned as an enemy alien. Denied permission to remain after the end of the War, he returned to East Berlin where he worked as a stage set designer for Bertolt Brecht
ENGLAND/GERMANY/FRANCE, John Heartfield, 1979, a bronze medal by R.W.F. Searle for the Club français de la Médaille, half-length facing portrait, holding a pair of scissors used on photomontages, Adolf Hitler represented as a satirical pike’s head at left, rev. allegory of a fox in uniform delivering a lecture to the people, edge impressed cu 1979 no. 14/100 and cornucopia, 76mm, 307.94g (CGMP p.1704; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.86, 202-4; cf. Elsen 116, 2369). Extremely fine, as made; in black box of issue £40-£60
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Edition of 100. John Heartfield (1891-1968), b Helmut Herzfeld, Berlin, visual artist; abandoned by his parents at the age of 8, he studied art in Munich and, back in his native Berlin and to protest against the anti-British fervour sweeping Germany, he began styling himself ‘John Heartfield’. An early Dadaist, he joined the Communist party and produced the first political photomontages, mainly criticising fascism and Nazism, but fled Germany in 1933 for Czechoslovakia, and then England in 1938, where he was interned as an enemy alien. Denied permission to remain after the end of the War, he returned to East Berlin where he worked as a stage set designer for Bertolt Brecht
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Searle, Ronald William Fordham (British, 1920-2011); b. Cambridge
ENGLAND/GERMANY/FRANCE, John Heartfield, 1979, a bronze medal by R.W.F. Searle for the Club français de la Médaille, half-length facing portrait, holding a pair of scissors used on photomontages, Adolf Hitler represented as a satirical pike’s head at left, rev. allegory of a fox in uniform delivering a lecture to the people, edge impressed cu 1979 no. 14/100 and cornucopia, 76mm, 307.94g (CGMP p.1704; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.86, 202-4; cf. Elsen 116, 2369). Extremely fine, as made; in black box of issue £40-£60
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Edition of 100. John Heartfield (1891-1968), b Helmut Herzfeld, Berlin, visual artist; abandoned by his parents at the age of 8, he studied art in Munich and, back in his native Berlin and to protest against the anti-British fervour sweeping Germany, he began styling himself ‘John Heartfield’. An early Dadaist, he joined the Communist party and produced the first political photomontages, mainly criticising fascism and Nazism, but fled Germany in 1933 for Czechoslovakia, and then England in 1938, where he was interned as an enemy alien. Denied permission to remain after the end of the War, he returned to East Berlin where he worked as a stage set designer for Bertolt Brecht
ENGLAND/GERMANY/FRANCE, John Heartfield, 1979, a bronze medal by R.W.F. Searle for the Club français de la Médaille, half-length facing portrait, holding a pair of scissors used on photomontages, Adolf Hitler represented as a satirical pike’s head at left, rev. allegory of a fox in uniform delivering a lecture to the people, edge impressed cu 1979 no. 14/100 and cornucopia, 76mm, 307.94g (CGMP p.1704; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.86, 202-4; cf. Elsen 116, 2369). Extremely fine, as made; in black box of issue £40-£60
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Edition of 100. John Heartfield (1891-1968), b Helmut Herzfeld, Berlin, visual artist; abandoned by his parents at the age of 8, he studied art in Munich and, back in his native Berlin and to protest against the anti-British fervour sweeping Germany, he began styling himself ‘John Heartfield’. An early Dadaist, he joined the Communist party and produced the first political photomontages, mainly criticising fascism and Nazism, but fled Germany in 1933 for Czechoslovakia, and then England in 1938, where he was interned as an enemy alien. Denied permission to remain after the end of the War, he returned to East Berlin where he worked as a stage set designer for Bertolt Brecht
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