 It was first known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics ("Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik"), due to its having been developed at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien (Social and Economic Museum of Vienna) between 1925 and 1934.The founding director of this museum, Otto Neurath, was the initiator and chief theorist of the Vienna Method.Gerd Arntz was the artist responsible for realising the graphics.