Works by John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter

Prussian Archangel

Date:

1920 (reconstruction Berlin 2004)

Medium:

Papier-mache (pig's head); wire mesh (body); palm grass, hemp, and horse hair (filling); uniform cut from field gray material, following original pattern; field cap, boots and shoulder lapels are WWI originals, partly reworked; waist band and sign are pri

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance

Neue Galerie New York, commissioned from the Werkstatt für unbeshaffbares, Berlin

Additional Details

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Neue Galerie New York
Accession Number:
2004.04
John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter