Die Physiologie der Farben [electronic resource] : für die Zwecke der Kunstgewerbe

Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von, 1819-1892 · 1866 · Leipzig : Hirzel · 16 pictures

Die Physiologie der Farben is an 1866 German treatise on colour by the physiologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, published in Leipzig by Hirzel for craft and decorative-arts practitioners. Its pictures are plain line diagrams of colour circles, a triangle with labelled points, and a sphere with axes labelled in German, drawn in black ink on cream paper. A designer could take from them a clear visual method for arranging hues around a wheel and mapping complementary pairs.

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