Franz Wilhelm Seiwert

Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (March 9, 1894 – July 3, 1933) was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style.

He was also politically active as a communist making significant contributions, both graphic and theoretical to Die Aktion.

[2] His first large solo exhibition was in Cologne at the Kunstverein in 1923,[1] and by the mid-1920s he was a leader of the "Group of Progressive Artists", who sought to reconcile constructivism with realism while expressing radical political views.

Seiwert was actively involved in the international discussions concerning proletarian culture during the revolutionary upsurge following the First World War.

[4] When Hitler came to power in 1933, Seiwert briefly fled to the mountain range Siebengebirge, but his health was badly deteriorating, and friends brought him back to Cologne, where he died on July 3, 1933.