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Both Neurath and Arntz fled to The Hague, where they compiled statistics for [[N.W. Posthumus]] (founder of the International Institute of Social History) in the years 1932-36. In May 1940 Neurath escaped to London, where he ran his fourth institute, the Isotype Institute, from 1942 until his death in 1945. Gerd Arntz took a job at the CBS and attended the review exhibition of his work at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1975. (from a [http://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/publications/newsletter-13.pdf newsletter of the International Institute of Social History])
 
Both Neurath and Arntz fled to The Hague, where they compiled statistics for [[N.W. Posthumus]] (founder of the International Institute of Social History) in the years 1932-36. In May 1940 Neurath escaped to London, where he ran his fourth institute, the Isotype Institute, from 1942 until his death in 1945. Gerd Arntz took a job at the CBS and attended the review exhibition of his work at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1975. (from a [http://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/publications/newsletter-13.pdf newsletter of the International Institute of Social History])
  
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[[Image:Arntz_Gerd_Neurath_Otto_et_al_Gesellschaft_und_Wirtschaft_Bildstatistisches_Elementarwerk.jpg|thumb|258px|Gerd Arntz, Otto Neurath, et al., ''Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk'', 1930, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10828 Log], [[Media:Arntz_Gerd_Neurath_Otto_et_al_Gesellschaft_und_Wirtschaft_Bildstatistisches_Elementarwerk.pdf|PDF]].]]
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[[Image:Neurath_Otto_International_Picture_Language.jpg|thumb|258px|''International Picture Language: The First Rules of Isotype'', 1936, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7633 Log], [[Media:Neurath_Otto_International_Picture_Language.pdf|PDF]].]]
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
 
* with Gerd Arntz, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10828 Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft - Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk]'', Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1930. {{de}}
 
* with Gerd Arntz, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10828 Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft - Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk]'', Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1930. {{de}}
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* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=19B223F6BA6A567708B17D8F75D83914 Philosophical Papers 1913-1946: With a Bibliography of Neurath in English]'', Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=19B223F6BA6A567708B17D8F75D83914 Philosophical Papers 1913-1946: With a Bibliography of Neurath in English]'', Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9364420AC96B50FF5392BB0C62F6E7FF Economic Writings: Selections, 1904-1945]'', Springer, 2004. {{en}}
 
* ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9364420AC96B50FF5392BB0C62F6E7FF Economic Writings: Selections, 1904-1945]'', Springer, 2004. {{en}}
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* ''From Hieroglyphics to Isotype: A Visual Autobiography'', eds. Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke, Hyphen Press, 2011, 224 pp. {{en}}
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* [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/ More]
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=179C7ED9822F1556CE8D8506868EA3CF Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics]'', Cambridge University Press, 1996. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/687757 Mormann] (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1997), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02698599808573591?journalCode=cisp20 Okruhlik] (Int'l Studies in Philosophy of Science 1997), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2998500 Ryckman] (Philosophical Review 1998).
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* Marie Neurath, [http://isotyperevisited.org/1955/03/memorandum-on-training-for-visual-education.html "Memorandum on training for visual education"], [12 Mar 1955]. Manuscript. {{en}}
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* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93.
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* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=179C7ED9822F1556CE8D8506868EA3CF Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics]'', Cambridge University Press, 1996. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/687757 Mormann] (BJPS 1997), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02698599808573591?journalCode=cisp20 Okruhlik] (ISPS 1997), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2998500 Ryckman] (PhilRev 1998). {{en}}
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* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/texte/MTP_Hartmann.pdf "Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye"], in ''Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy'', eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 2005, pp 698-707.
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* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. {{en}}
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* Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, Thomas E. Uebel (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9cdb60c6d799f46ab722f49ca5343f9e Otto Neurath's Economics in Context]'', Springer, 2007.
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* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/texte/MTP_Hartmann.pdf "Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye"], in ''Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy'', eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 2005, pp 698-707. {{en}}
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* Nader Vossoughian, ''Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008. [http://www.naipublishers.nl/architectuur/neurath_nl.html]
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* Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, Thomas E. Uebel (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9cdb60c6d799f46ab722f49ca5343f9e Otto Neurath's Economics in Context]'', Springer, 2007. {{en}}
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* Jordi Cat, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/ "Otto Neurath"], in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2010.
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* Nader Vossoughian, ''Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008. [http://www.naipublishers.nl/architectuur/neurath_nl.html] {{en}}
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* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/hartmann_neurath.html "The Power of Pictograms"], ''Stroom'', The Hague, 31 Oct 2006. {{en}}
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* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/Hartmann_Visualizing.pdf "Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE Project"], in ''European Modernism and the Information Society'', ed. W. Boyd Rayward, Ashgate, 2008, pp 279-293. {{en}}
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* Jordi Cat, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/ "Otto Neurath"], in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2010. {{en}}
 
* Sophie Elisabeth Hochhäusl, ''[http://txt.architekturtheorie.eu/otto-neurath-city-planning-sophie-hochhaeusl/?lang=en Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism]'', Innsbruck University Press, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=12b982530f3fb9d50ca86952873c40cc PDF]. {{en}}
 
* Sophie Elisabeth Hochhäusl, ''[http://txt.architekturtheorie.eu/otto-neurath-city-planning-sophie-hochhaeusl/?lang=en Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism]'', Innsbruck University Press, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=12b982530f3fb9d50ca86952873c40cc PDF]. {{en}}
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* Eric Kindel, Sue Walker, "Isotope Revisited", ''Progetto grafico'' 18 (Sep 2010); repr. in ''Progetto grafico international'' 19 (Mar 2011). {{en}}
 
* [http://nyit.academia.edu/NaderVossoughian More writings on Neurath by Nader Vossoughian]
 
* [http://nyit.academia.edu/NaderVossoughian More writings on Neurath by Nader Vossoughian]
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* [http://isotyperevisited.org/texts/index.html More]
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; Bibliographies
 
* [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/writings.php Bibliography] [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/biblio.php]
 
* [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/writings.php Bibliography] [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/biblio.php]
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/media/BibliografieNeurath.pdf Bibliography]
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/media/BibliografieNeurath.pdf Bibliography]
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==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/ The Otto Neurath Bibliography Pictorial Statistics]
 
* [http://www.neha.nl/neurath/ The Otto Neurath Bibliography Pictorial Statistics]
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* [http://www.wirtschaftsmuseum.at/wminorne.htm Neurath's page at WirtschaftsMuseum] (in German)
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* [http://www.wirtschaftsmuseum.at/wminorne.htm Neurath's page at WirtschaftsMuseum] {{de}}
 
* [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/ Neurath at MedienPhilosophie.net]
 
* [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/ Neurath at MedienPhilosophie.net]
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* [http://isotyperevisited.org/exhibition/ Isotype: International Picture Language] exhibiton, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Dec 2010-Mar 2011.
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/media/81624_BIOGRAPHY_OttoNeurathPIX.pdf Otto Neurath (1882-1945): A brief biography]
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/media/81624_BIOGRAPHY_OttoNeurathPIX.pdf Otto Neurath (1882-1945): A brief biography]
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier.php?wd_id=3530772 Web dossier: After Neurath] at Stroom Den Haag
 
* [http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier.php?wd_id=3530772 Web dossier: After Neurath] at Stroom Den Haag

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Otto Neurath (1882, Vienna – 1945, Oxford) was an Austrian economist, economic-historian, Wiener-Kreis philosopher and briefly a politician (he served as a minister under the Bavarian Council Republic). Before he was to flee his native country in 1934, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.

In 1924, he opened the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum (GeWiMu) in Vienna, where he devised the Wiener method of visual statistics or isotypes. His objective was to help workers become aware of the economic reality. Two years afterwards he encountered the artist Gerd Arntz, known primarily as a member of the Cologne Progressives group, who settled in Vienna in 1929 to elaborate Neurath’s ideas. When Neurath established the sister institute Isostat in Moscow, Arntz joined him there for extended periods. In 1934 both their operations in Vienna and Moscow were discontinued almost simultaneously. After the civil war in February, the Austro-fascist government of Dolfuss shut down the red GeWiMu – located in the Volkshalle of the Viennese town hall. In Moscow the Isostat fell out of favour, when socialist realism prevailed over ‘anonymity’ and the ‘Western, constructivist, decadent designs.’

Both Neurath and Arntz fled to The Hague, where they compiled statistics for N.W. Posthumus (founder of the International Institute of Social History) in the years 1932-36. In May 1940 Neurath escaped to London, where he ran his fourth institute, the Isotype Institute, from 1942 until his death in 1945. Gerd Arntz took a job at the CBS and attended the review exhibition of his work at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1975. (from a newsletter of the International Institute of Social History)

Gerd Arntz, Otto Neurath, et al., Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk, 1930, Log, PDF.
International Picture Language: The First Rules of Isotype, 1936, Log, PDF.

Publications

Literature

Bibliographies

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