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Bauhaus Optical Colour Model
TEACHING AIDS
teaching aid
Kurt Naef
Europe: Switzerland, Aargau, Zeiningen
1990s?
cardboard; wood; paper
leaflet: 101 mm x 101 mm; outer box: 110 mm x 112 mm x 107 mm; overall: 110 mm x 101 mm
2023.371
TEACHING AIDS
teaching aid
Kurt Naef
Europe: Switzerland, Aargau, Zeiningen
1990s?
cardboard; wood; paper
leaflet: 101 mm x 101 mm; outer box: 110 mm x 112 mm x 107 mm; overall: 110 mm x 101 mm
Spinning top of wood with spindle over which may be placed seven cardboard rings/disks to which are pasted printed paper plates. The coloured plates may, by spinning, illustrate some of the theories of Goethe, Schopenhauer and Hoelzel. Together with original retail box and trilingual leaflet. Ring 1 = Examination of the brightness value, 2 = Rembrandt's quantitative apportionment of light and shade, 3 = Mixture of the priamry colours, 4 = the colour circle in six parts according to Goethe, 5 = chromatic circle of equivalents according to Schopenhauer, 6 = Bezold's colour circle in 12 parts, used by Hoelzel, 7 = mixtures of colours in eccentric rings.
2023.371
Gift of Mr Brian Ariel FCOptom, 2023