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John Heartfield

1891 - 1968

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John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Heartfield has received more than 404,219 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). John Heartfield is the 38th most popular artist (up from 39th in 2019), the 1,702nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,604th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Artist.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARTISTS

Among artists, John Heartfield ranks 38 out of 125. Before him are Bernt Notke, Méret Oppenheim, André Charles Boulle, Barnett Newman, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Marcel Janco. After him are Jeff Koons, Marianne Brandt, Herbert Bayer, Hermann Nitsch, Nicholas of Verdun, and Ivan Fyodorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, John Heartfield ranks 55. Before him are Cole Porter, Pier Luigi Nervi, Walter A. Shewhart, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Takijirō Ōnishi, and Shukri al-Quwatli. After him are Hu Shih, Jacques Lipchitz, Hans F. K. Günther, Johannes R. Becher, Oswald Boelcke, and Lajos Zilahy. Among people deceased in 1968, John Heartfield ranks 48. Before him are Georgios Papandreou, Tsuguharu Foujita, Fritz Bauer, Husband E. Kimmel, Leopold Infeld, and Giovannino Guareschi. After him are Fedor Tokarev, Jean Hyppolite, István Dobi, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, and Upton Sinclair.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Heartfield ranks 1,702 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Anna of Saxony (1544), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Heino (1938), and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736). After him are Hans Albert (1921), Joschka Fischer (1948), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Gisela of Swabia (990), Hans Berger (1873), and Christian Thielemann (1959).

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Among ARTISTS In Germany

Among artists born in Germany, John Heartfield ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Beuys (1921), Kurt Schwitters (1887), Josef Albers (1888), Ulay (1943), Bernt Notke (1435), and Méret Oppenheim (1913). After him are Marianne Brandt (1893), Gunta Stölzl (1897), and Daniel Hopfer (1470).

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