Periodical: Jedermann sein eigner Fussball (Everyone His Own Soccer Ball), vol. 1, no. 1 (February 15, 1919). Wieland Herzfelde, ed. Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag.
Complete in one issue.
Halftone letterpress, 16 7/8 x 11 11/16” (42.9 x 29.7 cm)

Committed to print media, John Heartfield produced some of the Twentieth Century’s most striking and politically pointed graphic images. For a selection of Heartfield’s periodical covers, book jackets, and posters, scroll down. Click here to view our more extensive John Heartfield holdings.

Periodical: Neue Jugend (New Youth; June 1917), John Heartfield, ed. Announcement for Kleinen Grosz Mappe (Small Grosz Portfolio).
Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag
Halftone letterpress, 25 3/16 x 20 11/16” (63.9 x 52.5 cm)

Book cover: Upton Sinclair, Petroleum. Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag, 1927
Offset lithograph, 7 7/16 x 18 3/8” (18.9 x 46.7 cm), unfolded

Book: Kurt Tucholsky, Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles
(Germany, Germany Above All). Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1929
Cloth covered boards with embossed halftone and letterpress
9 3/8 x 7 3/8 x 1/2” (23.8 x 18.7 x 1.3 cm)

Serialized book: J.[ames] Thomas, ed. Illustrierte Geschichte Des Bürgerkrieges in Russland, 1917–1921
(Illustrated History of the Civil War in Russia, 1917–1921).
Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag/Willi Münzenberg, c. 1928.
480 pages in twenty issues.Fabric-covered cardboard folio containing twenty numbered and stapled issues, each halftone letterpress
11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/8” (29.2 x 21.6 x 2.8 cm), folio;
11 1/2 x 8 1/2” (29.2 x 21.6 cm), each issue

Poster: Protect the Soviet Union! Reject on August 1st!
Against Imperialist War and the Danger of War! 1929
Lithograph and halftone, 36 7/16 x 24.8” (92.5 x 63.2 cm)

Poster: Das letzte Stück Brot raubt Ihnen der Kapitalismus
(Capitalism Robs You of the Last Piece of Bread), 1932
Campaign poster for Communist Party representative Ernst Thälmann
in the April 1932 presidential election
Lithograph, 37 3/4 × 28 1/2” (95.9 × 72.4 cm)
Formerly Merrill C. Berman Collection;
now The Museum of Modern Art, New York (595.2018)

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