What is Marie Neurath?
[[File:Basic by Isotype.jpg|thumb|Isotype, to illustrate road traffic, in a book by Otto Neurath, of 1925.]] '''Marie Neurath''' (27th May 1898 - 10. October 1986, aged 87{{fact|date=May 2023}}) was a [[Germans|German]] [[Illustrator]]. Before marrying, she was called ''Marie Reidemeister''. Neurath studied [[Mathematics|mathemathics]] and [[physics]], in Göttingen. She also went to an art shool. She met [[Otto Neurath]], and became his assistant in [[Vienna]], before marrying him. The [[Engelbert Dollfuss|Dollfuss]] regime closed the instutue, and the couple fled to the [[Netherlands]], and then to [[England]]. Today, Neurath is mostly credited for starting [[Isotype]]. Isotype is a standarized system of [[Illustration|illustrations]], called [[Pictogram|pictograms]]. There are rules, how to combine these pictugrams, called a [[grammar]]. Neurath founded the Isotype institute with her husband in 1942. She continued it, until the 1970s, after her husband died in 1945. She also wrote some children's books, where she used illustrations to educate the childrten. Isotype was originally developed to illustrate statistics, and to make them easier to understand. {{DEFAULTSORT:Neurath, Marie}} [[Category:German illustrators]] [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1986 deaths]]