Gerd Arntz (11 December 1900, Remscheid – 4 December 1988, The Hague) was a German Modernist artist - famous for his black and white woodcuts. A core member of the Cologne Progressives he was also a council communist.^[1] The Cologne Progressives participated in the revolutionary unions AAUD (KAPD) and its offshoot the AAUE in the 1920s^[2], and in 1928 Arntz was contributing anti-parliamentary prints to it's paper Die Proletarische Revolution which called for workers to form and participate in worker's councils.^[3] These political prints depicted the life of worker's and the class struggle in abstracted figures in woodcuts.^[4]