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Color Theory in Science and Art: Ostwald and the Bauhaus
Author(s) -
Ball Philip,
Ruben Mario
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200430086
Subject(s) - painting , nobel laureate , art , art history , literature , poetry
A historical confluence of the streams of science and art took place in Dessau, Germany, in 1927. The main participants were the artists of the Bauhaus School (represented by a painting by Kandinsky, left) and the Nobel Laureate and avid painter Wilhem Ostwald, who presented his theory of color (the basis for the etching on the right).