[ Photographs ] Berman, Meeczyslaw Untitled ( Photocollage). Mixed-media photocollage containing an original cut-out silver print with additional hand-drawn elements. The print is heavily overpainted with transparent pigments, highlighted with

[ Photographs ] Berman, Meeczyslaw Untitled ( Photocollage). Mixed-media photocollage containing an original cut-out silver print with additional hand-drawn elements. The print is heavily overpainted with transparent pigments, highlighted with photographic reproductions of a bottle of Schlitz, a sausage, a salami, and a glass of beer, each of which is hand-tinted, and the whole is then mounted and airbrushed: with the artist's signature and date, in ink, on recto. 1944 E8000-10000 Mieczyslaw Berman was born in Warsaw, in 1903, and began making his first constructivist photomontages in 192 7, at the School of Decorative Art. From the beginning Berman employed his artwork for satirical purposes, wittily poking fun at authority figures, particularly those of a certain political persuasion. This untitled war-time photocollage, which clearly takes aim at the Germans, shows a figure in military dress, his blonde hair vividly tinted, and whose head is dislocated so that his face juts out from his neck in a rather simian-like fashion. A cut-away indicates what was on the mind of this atavistic-looking fellow - lunch washed down by a foamy cold one. The subject of numerous shows worldwide, Berman's works are in the collections of the Historical Museum of the Polish Revolutionary Movement and the Art Museum, Lodz, as well as in many private collections throughout German, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. See Fifty Years Of History In Berman's Photomontages (Milano: Galleria Schwarz, 1973