Gerd
Arnz

Gerd Arntz (it. Gerd Arntz; 11 December 1900, Remscheid — 4 December 1988, the Hague) was a German modernist painter and printmaker, who worked in the style of "new objectivity" and figurative constructivism. Communist political views.

Born into a family manufacturer. In his youth he worked at the factory of his father, but to continue the family business did not want to.

1919 — educated teacher of painting and drawing in the Studio Kurowski.

1922 — first exhibition of works in the city of Herbalifeline (now Wuppertal), in collaboration with artists Henry Gherla and Franz Seifertim.

1924 — an active part in the artistic group of proletarian art ", a Group of progressive artists in Cologne" (along with Sitecom, Gherla, Otto Freundlich).

1928 — works together in Salperton for the Cologne newspaper "Press".

1929 — moved to Austria, working as a head of Department of graphics at the Vienna Museum of economy and society; participates in the development of the "Vienna method of pictorial statistics"; he collaborates with the magazine "a-z".

1931-1934 — works in Moscow for the Moscow museums.

1934 — moved to the Hague.

1934-1940 — works at the Hague Institute Mundaneum, then the head of the graphics Department of the Netherlands Foundation for statistics.

1935 — cooperating with the Communist organization "workers ' Council" (it. De arbeidersraad).

1943 — the forced mobilization into the German army.

1944 — participates in the Resistance Movement, is captured.

1950 — creates a series of works "Dance of death" (it. Totentanz).

1951-1962 — works for UNESCO in the field of visual statistics.

1970 — honorary member of the Graphic school in the Netherlands.

In the 1930-ies made a great contribution to the development of ISOTYPE — language images, developed in Vienna sociologist and philosopher Otto Neurath.