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Color Theorists / Philosophers

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Color Theorists / Philosophers

Color Theorists: Goethe's Color Wheel 1810

  • Jacob Christoph Le Blon  (1667-1741)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  (1749-1832)
  • Michel Chevreul  (1786-1889)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald  (1853-1932)
  • Albert Munsell  (1858-1918)
  • Josef Albers  (1888-1976)     
  • Johannes Itten  (1888-1967)
  • Max Lüscher (1923-2017)

Image: Goethe's Symmetric Symbolic Colour Wheel 1810

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