Gerd Arntz

Gerd Arntz
Arntz in 1982
Born(1900-12-11)11 December 1900
Remscheid, German Empire
Died4 December 1988(1988-12-04) (aged 87)
The Hague, The Netherlands
NationalityGerman and Dutch
Known forco-creator of Isotype
StyleConstructivism, Figurative Constructivism
Websitegerdarntz.org

Gerd Arntz (11 December 1900 – 4 December 1988) was a German Modernist artist renowned for his black and white woodcuts. A core member of the Cologne Progressives, he was also a council communist.[1] The Cologne Progressives participated in the revolutionary unions AAUD (KAPD) and its offshoot the AAUE in the 1920s.[2] In 1928 Arntz contributed prints to the AAUE paper Die Proletarische Revolution, calling for workers to abandon parliament and form and participate in worker's councils.[1] These woodcut prints feature recurring themes of class.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Annink, Ed; Bruinsmaal, Max (2010). Gerd Arntz : graphic designer. Rotterdam: 010. p. 27. ISBN 978-90-6450-763-2.
  2. ^ "Art as a weapon: Franz Seiwert and the Cologne progressives - Martyn Everett".