Gerd Arntz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerd Arntz

German artist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1900

Place of Birth: Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1988

Profession: graphic designer, illustrator, painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gerd Arntz (11 December 1900, in Remscheid – 4 December 1988, in The Hague) 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 (KAPD) 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.