Augustin Tschinkel (1905 Prague–1983 Cologne) was a Czech artist active with the Figurative Constructivist art movement. Tschinkel went to Cologne to attend the Pressa exhibition there. He was working with Ladislav Sutnar who was responsible for the Czech pavilion there. While in Cologne he took the opportunity to meet with Franz Seiwert, who he was familiar with from reading left wing art/politics journal Die Aktion to which Seiwert contributed both images and theoretical articles. He joined the Cologne Progressives, the art group that Seiwert had founded. He adopted their method of black and white images which were easy to mass-produce for leaflets and posters which they distributed to a largely working class audience with little consideration for official constraints on where they put t