First painter he is best known for his collages violently denouncing Nazism. His work is published in newspapers communists. Friends of George Grosz he was admitted to the Dada movement in 1918.

The photomontage and photograms are inseparable from the new way to see who emerges in 1920 in Germany with John Heartfield is one of the actors. The New Vision opposes upstream and downstream two photographic art movements: Pictorialism and the new objectivity. The pictorialist photography dominated the soumettrant pictorial model. The photomontage used as a means of resistance are also a reaction to the painting which he denounces Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch increasing abstraction, conceptual vacuum, the break with reality. It also contributes in a breakthrough in making visible the social and political situations outrageous by photography.

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