Aleksandr Zhitomirsky. His Struggle - Your Death, 1940. Sein Kampf - Dem Tod. USSR, the photographer. Gelatin silver print mounted on album page.

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky. His Struggle - Your Death, 1940. Sein Kampf - Dem Tod. USSR, the photographer. Gelatin silver print mounted on album page.

 Vintage photomontage, 7.75 x 11 inches mounted on an album page (11.5 x 14 inches). Titled in cyrillic below the image. Zhitomirsky was a designer, caricaturist, and photographer known for his political photocollage and photomontage. He had connections to, and a friendship with, the German artist John Heartfield, whose work inspired his own. He was born in Rostov, Russia, in 1907 and died in 1993.

The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravdaand other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras. Zhitomirsky favored the grotesque and the eye-catching. His villainous menagerie included Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels as a distorted simian and an airborne scorpion outfitted with an Uncle Sam hat. Inquire for price.