John Hartfield Biography

He was a socialist and wrote at a time when the law on socialists forbidden the activities of the party outside the parliament, prose and theatrical plays were still in force.

He published several books. Franz was from the wealthy family of entrepreneur Jonas Herzfeld, the owner of the cotton factory. At the age of 14, he won the competition of dramatic works, then studied jurisprudence, visited France and Italy, published the first book under the pseudonym Franz Held Held - in German - a hero. One of his most famous works is Tartaren in Paris.

In the year, at a meeting of the muttoning workers in Berlin, he met Tekstilshchik Aliso Stolzenberg Alice Stolzenberg, she was a speaker at this assembly and anarchist by views according to some information. They met and fell in love with each other. On the left is father, on the right - a mother with a three -year -old Helmut in the year, Franc Held was convicted “for blasphemy” and sentenced to a year of imprisonment.

However, the verdict was sentenced in absentia, because Franz at that moment was already “underground”. After receiving the agenda, he fled with his wife and already three children at Helmut had two sisters - Charlotte and Hertha in Switzerland, the fourth child was born there - Viland. From Switzerland, the fugitives were deported and moved to Austria, where they lived in a forest hut in Aigen near Salzburg.

We lived poorly. In the summer of the year, for some sources in the year, children of orphaned. It happened a little strange. Parents simply disappeared, leaving all four children in the shelter, from where they were taken by the burgomaster Aigen and the head of the railway station Ignat Barnishin. Ignats and his wife Clara did not have their children and they took all four orphans to their house.

The guardians of the children were the writer Max Galbe and the elder brother of Franz, the lawyer and deputy of the Reichstag in Berlin from the Social Democratic Party Joseph Herzfeld. The reasons for the disappearance of parents, their further fate is covered with a mystery. Both Helmut and Viland for many years knew nothing about the fate of his parents.

Only in the year, after the death of Helmut in the city of Viland, did he learn that Franz Held was arrested in or in the year, was in a psychiatric clinic, died in the year. Nothing is known about the fate of the mother. Helmut in Aigen in the year. In the family of Barnshin Helmut, it was not too easy. Firstly, he was the only one of all the children was baptized by the Protestant, who were despised by the rest of the children in Salzburg, secondly, he began to stutter when he was very worried, and thirdly, he was red.

The Barnish family moved to Salzburg and Helmut ended up in the foster family of the Bosofi postal translation, who knew how to play the cytre excellently. But Helmut's happiness was short -lived. For participation in school speeches against the hated teacher, he was going to send him "to correction" to an educational institution in Salzburg, which were headed by nuns. Barnshaine again took Helmut to them.

Ignat Barnishine wanted Helmut to grow up as an educated person as his father and discuss the future fate of the boy with the guardian of children - Joseph Herzfeld, the lawyer and deputy of the Reichstag, but he said that he was preparing to study at the University of Berlin prematurely and we had to go through the usual school course. Helmut was upset, but he had to go to the people's school, and not to relatives in Berlin.

In the year, studying at school was completed. In April, the brothers Helmut and Viland went to Wiesbaden, where they lived with the book trader Henry Hoyss - whose wife was the older sister of Alisa Stolsenberg, the mother of Helmut. Helmut mastered the student’s work in a bookstore - he carried books to customers. Both brothers were not just friends - back in Salzburg, they concluded a “fraternal union” against adults, from whom one could expect anything, even if they demonstrate goodwill.

Wiesbaden caused them a disgust from literally from the first day. Henry Hoyce considered himself a wonderful person, the "father of the family." He spent mainly not in his bookstore, but in the beer, from where the wife “took it out” from the evenings and delivered him home. He was large, fat, smoked cigars with bright shortcuts, touched his wife, and in the morning after brushing his teeth he was sick.

The guys preferred to be at home as little as possible than upset their aunt, but pleased themselves. The age difference between Helmut and Viland was five years, but there was nothing that they would not trust each other. Helmut was amorous, friendly and shy. He could hang out on the street for hours, clutching a bouquet of flowers in his hand to awkwardly hand him a girl he liked.

Once Helmut admitted to his brother that he wants to be an artist, not a book tradinger. This surprised Viland - after all, Helmut loved books, and about everything. He was friends with the young expressionist Jomar Forst, although they were very different - tall, melancholy dark -haired yomar and small growth, hot -tempered and full of Helmut's enthusiasm.He could have enthusiastically discuss with his brother or familiar girls the prose of Novalis or Jean of Fields, poems from the collections of "Eight centuries of German poetry" or "German songs".

Sometimes I read my own poems, which the younger brother liked more than printed in books. They tried to write together and once even took part in the competition, which was declared a prisoner of the Maggi Sups, and won a prize of 50 marks. It was a lot of money. Viland dissuaded his brother from painting - on every corner of the photo studio - everything that can be captured will better make the camera.

But Helmut replied that the matter was not in similarity, but in art. And he had talent. This was confirmed by Mr. Bufffo, an artist, and the head of the city art school. Buffo managed to convince Aunt Helena that Helmut had already learned to carry books and could learn painting. At the school, Bufffo Helmut was engaged in up to a year. Helmut painted not only “classic” plots like landscapes and still lifes, but began to master a new direction - art advertising and design - maybe because he needed money.

Even in Wisbaden, he met with Alois Erbach, the son of a mason who also wanted to become an artist. Together they went to Munich, which was the center of the artistic life of Germany. We passed the exams and entered the Royal Bavarian school of applied arts in Munich. From that time on, Helmut's creative path in painting and graphics begins. There is a note on the last witch - the cover of the book was made by Helmut Herzfeld, the eldest son of the poet, who received art education in Munich.

This publication meant a lot for the brothers-they did not know about the fate of the father and mother, but found out that their father was not a poor-man who threw children in the shelter, but a talented poet who enjoys respect and recognition and also a revolutionary and socialist.