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Franz Wilhelm Seiwert -LRB- March 9 , 1894 -- July 3 , 1933 -RRB- was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style .. German. Germany. constructivist. Constructivism ( art ). He was also politically active as a communist making significant contributions , both graphic and theoretical to Die Aktion .. communist. communist. Die Aktion. Die Aktion. Seiwert was born in Cologne .. Cologne. Cologne. He was seriously burned in 1901 , at the age of seven , in an experimental radiological treatment .. radiological. radiology. As a result , he subsequently lived with the fear that his life would be short .. He studied from 1910 to 1914 at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts .. Cologne. Cologne. Cologne School of Arts and Crafts. Kolner Werkschulen. In 1919 he met Max Ernst and took part in Dada activities .. Max Ernst. Max Ernst. Dada. Dada. He was invited to exhibit in the large Dada exhibit in Cologne but withdrew at the last moment .. Cologne. Cologne. Dada. Dada. In that same year he formed the Stupid group which included Heinrich Hoerle and Anton Raderscheidt .. Stupid. Stupid ( art movement ). Heinrich Hoerle. Heinrich Hoerle. Anton Raderscheidt. Anton Raderscheidt. According to Ernst , `` Stupid was a secession from Cologne Dada .. Cologne. Cologne. Dada. Dada. Stupid. Stupid ( art movement ). As far as Hoerle and especially Seiwert were concerned , Dada 's activities were aesthetically too radical and socially not concrete enough '' .. Dada. Dada. His first large solo exhibition was in Cologne at the Kunstverein 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 .. Cologne. Cologne. Group of Progressive Artists. Cologne Progressives. In 1929 he founded the magazine `` a-z '' , a journal of progressive art .. This became a vehicle for the exposition of Figurative Constructivism .. Figurative Constructivism. Figurative Constructivism