Mimikry [Mimicry]

Letter from the Director of the Akadamie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 1, 2012: "I hearwith confirm that John Heartfield was the legal owner of all of his montages and other artworks which are now owned by the Akademie der Künste in its John Heartfield Archive and fine art collection since he created them from the 1920s until his death in April 24, 1968. He also was - as far as it could be constructed - in his physcial possession of these materials during his exile in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain. In his last willl, dating from Nov. 6, 1964, he bequeathed these materials to the "Akademie der Künste der DDR." IN 1993, the art and archive material of the Akademie der Künste came by federal law into the ownership and physical possession of the reunited East and West Akademie, called now "Akademie der Künste, Berlin." [See copy in file]
Reproduced in Marinus Jacob Kjeldgaard, "Marinus, Heartfield: Politische Fotomontagen der 1930er Jahre/ Herausgegeben von Gunner Byskov und Bodo von Dewitz," (Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2008), p. 211.

Fineman, Mia. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.