Cologne Progressives

They came together following the First World War and participated in the radical workers' movement.

The group was founded by Gerd Arntz, Heinrich Hoerle and Franz Wilhelm Seiwert.

Other artists and designers associated with this group include Wilhelm Kleinert, Marta Hegemann, Angelika Hoerle, Anton Räderscheidt, and Gottfried Brockmann.

[3] This concept comes from their concern not merely to communicate social and political necessities, but also to ensure that their artworks could be turned toward the viewers sensible reality and become tenable as an argument.

This is tied to their political commitment to proletarian culture in the specific context of the Rhineland during the tumults of the 1920s.