Gerd arntz biography examples

Already as a young man, born in a German family of traders and manufacturers, Gerd Arntz was a socially inspired and politically committed artist.

In Düsseldorf, where he lived since his nineteenth, he joined a movement which wanted to turn Germany into a ‘soviet-’ or ‘council republic’, a radically socialist state form based on direct popular democracy.

Gerd Arntz was born in Remscheid (Germany) in and grew up in a well-to-do, culture-loving family.

Gerd Arntz was born in Remscheid (Germany) in and grew up in a well-to-do, culture-loving family.

Gerd Arntz was born in as the son of a well-to-do owner of an ironware factory in the city of Remscheid, located in the German federal state of North.

Already as a young man, born in a German family of traders and manufacturers, Gerd Arntz was a socially inspired and politically committed artist.

Born in , Arntz spent most of his artistic life committed to highlighting social injustice and class struggle in Europe.

The son of iron manufacturers in Remscheid, Arntz served in the field artillery in World War I and then entered the family business as a factory worker trainee.

As a revolutionary artist, Arntz was connected to the Cologne based ‘progressive artists group’ (Gruppe progressiver Künstler Köln) and depicted the life of workers and the class struggle in abstracted figures on woodcuts.

Published in leftist magazines, his work was noticed by Otto Neurath, a social scientist and founder of the Museum of Society and Economy (Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum) in Vienna, Austria. Neurath had developed a method to communicate complex information on society, economy and politics in simple images.

For his ‘Vienna method of visual statistics’, he needed a designer who could make e