Prussian Archangel

work by Sachlichkeit, Schlichter and Heartfield

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In John Heartfield
… artist Rudolf Schlichter, Heartfield created Prussian Archangel, a dummy of a German soldier with a papier-mâché pig’s head that hung from the ceiling of the Dada exhibition gallery. The figure’s body was wrapped with a sign that read “I come from Heaven, from Heaven on high.” The work attracted the…
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