to the described experiments. The hand-drawn illustrations of these are appealing, some remind us of abstract colour studies. Goethe
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developed his ideas through visual perception and was a good observer who abstracted from what he saw. He hated complex apparatuses and was a purist in this sense, because he believed in the immediate sensual experience of nature. His preoccupation with colours and »useful«, blue »common« and violett
his deliberate handling of them was
»unnecessary«.
also expressed impressively in his
Goethe’s »Theory of Colours« is still worth reading today as it gives insights into a different way of
house at the Frauenplan square in Weimar. The poet lived there for more than 40 years and rebuilt it little by little, redecorating the rooms
scientific thinking and writing and
according to his artistic and public
is easily comprehensible thanks
tasks. The different colour schemes
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