Gerd Arntz
(1900-1988) was a German Modernist artist renowned for his black and
white woodcuts. He is considered as the inventor of pictograms, a
kind of schematic, simplified pictures, for example the icons used in
computers.
He was a member of
different left-wing movements and participated in an exhibition of
« Revolutionary Art from the West » in Moscow in 1926. In
1932-1933 he lived in the USSR and had contacts with soviet artists
like El Lissitsky and Tatlin.
In 1934 he had to
leave Germany and he settled in the Netherlands.
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