Peter Alma (18 January 1886

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– 23 May 1969

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) was a

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artist. Alma was born in

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and attended the

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague The Royal Academy of Art (KABK, nl, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten) is an art and design academy in The Hague. Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (part of the Confrerie Pictura), the academy was founded on 29 September 1682, m ...

in 1904. On the recommendation of

Franz 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' ...

he was employed by the

Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum (Museum for Social and Economic Affairs) is a museum located in Margareten, Vienna. History Following World War I, Vienna experienced extreme devastation and deprivation which radicalized architects and designe ...

working with

Gerd Arntz Gerd Arntz (11 December 1900, in Remscheid – 4 December 1988, in The Hague) was a German Modernist artist renowned for his black and white woodcuts. A core member of the Cologne Progressives, he was also a council communist. The Cologne Progres ...

and

Augustin Tschinkel Augustin Tschinkel (1905, Prague – 1983, Cologne) was a Czech artist active with the Figurative Constructivist art movement. Tschinkel went to Cologne, Germany to attend the '' Pressa'' exhibition there. He was working with Ladislav Sutnar who ...

on the development of Isotypes. He travelled to

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

with Arntz and

Otto Neurath Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath (; 10 December 1882 – 22 December 1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. He was also the inventor of the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in mu ...

to work at

IZOSTAT IZOSTAT (ИЗОСТАТ) ( rus, Всесоюзный институт изобразительной статистики советского строительства и хозяйства) was the "All-union Institute of Pictorial Statistics o ...

to help them draw up pictorial images for statistics of the Five Year Plans. Alma was a member of

Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst The Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst (V.A.N.K.) (Dutch Association for Craft and Industrial Art) was founded in 1904. It was founded by Jacob Pieter van den Bosch, Herman Hana, Klaas van Leeuwen, Theo Molkenboer, and Wi ...

(V.A.N.K.) the Dutch Association for craft and craft art.

Works

Amsterdam Museum

The

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keeps a number of his works in their depot:
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References

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