Peter Alma

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Peter Alma (1956)
Mural at Amsterdam Amstel railway station by Peter Alma (1939).

Peter Alma (1868-1969) was a Dutch artist.

Alma was born in Medan, Indonesia and attended the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 1904.

On the recommendation of Franz Seiwert he was employed by the Gesellschafts-und Wirtschaftsmuseum working with Gerd Arntz and Augustin Tschinkel on the development of Isotypes.

He travelled to Moscow with Arntz and Otto Neurath to work at IZOSTAT to help them draw up pictorial images for statistics of the Five Year Plans.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Annink, Ed; Bruinsma, Max (2010). Gerd Arntz Graphic Designer. Rotterdam: 010. ISBN 9789064507632.