Franz Wilhelm Seiwert

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

Seiwert was born in Cologne and studied from 1910 to 1914 at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts. In 1919 he participated in Dada activities and met Max Ernst. Seiwert was invited to exhibit in the large Dada exhibit in Cologne but withdrew at the last moment. In that same year he formed the Stupid group which included Heinrich Hoerle and Anton Räderscheidt.

His first large solo exhibition came in 1923, 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. In 1929 he founded the magazine "a-z", a journal of progressive art.

Seiwert's early death may have been caused by injuries he received as a child in a radiation experiment. He died in 1933 in Cologne.