Gerd Arntz
Graphic Designer, Deceased Person
1900 – 1988
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Who was Gerd Arntz?
Gerd Arntz 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. The Cologne Progressives participated in the revolutionary unions AAUD and its offshoot the AAUE in the 1920s. 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. These woodcut prints feature recurring themes of class.
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- Born
- Dec 11, 1900
Remscheid - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 4, 1988
The Hague
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on July 23, 2013
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