movement death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date article_title education birth_name
social realisim december 30 , 1990 san jose , california zürich , switzerland swiss-american herman volz december 25 , 1904 herman volz
 art in vienna und gewerbeschule , the academy of fine art herman roderick volz
herman volz

herman roderick volz -lrb- 1904 -- 1990 -rrb- swiss-american painter , muralist , lithographer , set designer , decorative artist and ceramist .
he was politically active , vocal and often made social statements through his imagery and he was especially taken by the industrial horizon of his adopted home of san francisco bay area .
many of his art pieces done for the federal art project -lrb- fap -rrb- , for example , were of men at work and of docks , piers , and railroad yards .
