Plate 16 from Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde, vol. I

Alfred Reth was a Hungarian painter and sculptor whose work bridged constructivism and abstraction during the early twentieth century. Active across Budapest, Vienna, and Paris, he developed a formal language centered on geometric reduction and the intersection of color and form. Reth's practice encompassed oil painting, collage, and three-dimensional construction, positioning him within the avant-garde movements that emerged from Central Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.