Franz Wilhelm Seiwert

Seiwert was actively involved in the international discussions concerning proletarian culture during the revolutionary upsurge following the First World War. "Throw out the old false idols! In the name of the coming proletarian culture" Seiwert was the leading theorist of Figurative Constructivism describing its origins as "From the expressionist-cubist art-form abstract constructivism was developed, which in turn led into Figurative Constructivism". 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. ==Contributions to Die Aktion==

Die Aktion ran from 1911-1932. Seiwert made 43 contributions (see Wikisource (German language)): Images In the two years from 1917 to 1919 Seiwert had seven untitled woodcuts published in Die Aktion. File:Seiwert (1917) untitled wood cut.png|8 September 1917, File:Seiwert (1918a) untiled woodcut.png|9 February 1918, File:Seiwert (1918b) untitled woodcut.png|29 June 1918, File:Seiwert (1918c) untitled woodcut.png|5 October 1918, File:Seiwert (1918d) untitled woodcut.png|5 October 1918, File:Seiwert (1919a) untitled woodcut.png|19 April 1919, File:Seiwert (1919b) untitled woodcut.png|24 May 1919, Articles • (1919a) "Eine Osterpredigt" (An Easter Sermon), Die Aktion, No. 14/15, 19 April 1919, p. 205–207 • (1920a) "Tuet Bekenntnis, fordert Bekenntnis" (Start commitment, urge commitment), Die Aktion, Vol. 10, No. 7/8, 21 February 1920, p. 110–1 • (1920b) "Das Loch in Rubens Schinken" (The hole in Rubens Ham), Die Aktion, Vol. 10, No. 29/30, 24 July 1920, p. 418–319 • (1920c) "Worum handelt es sich?" (What's it about?), Die Aktion, Vol. 10, No. 37/38, 18. September 1920, p. 514 • (1920d) "Es kommt auf das Fundament an" (It depends on the fundamentals), Die Aktion, Vol. 10, No. 43/44, 30. October 1920, p. 613–615 • (1920e) "Aufbau der Proletarischen Kultur" (The Structure of the Proletarian Cultural), Die Aktion, Vol. 10, No. 51/52, 25 December 1920, p. 719–724 • (1921a) "Gesellschaft und Prostitution", Die Aktion, No. 9/10, 5. March 1921, p. 134–136 • (1921b) "Offener Brief an den Genossen Bogdanow" (Open Letter to Comrade Bogdanov), Die Aktion, No. 27/28, 9 July 1921, p. 373–374 • (1921c) "Das Leben des Proleten" (The Life of the Proletarians), Die Aktion, No. 51/52, 25 December 1921, p. 721–722 • (1922a) "Die Entwicklung der kommunistischen Bewegung in Deutschland" (The Development of the Communist Movement in Germany), Die Aktion, No. 39/40, 15 October 1922, p. 551–554 • (192?) • (192?) • (192?) . . . ==Notes==