Wilhelm Ostwald and the Bauhaus

thapke — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:07:41 +0000

In the Twenties Ostwald got contact to members of the Bauhaus, e.g. to Walter Gropius. He gave talks at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1927. The same year he was invited to join the Bauhaus board of trustees. Nevertheless most of the Bauhaus members remained offish to his ideas.

Albrecht Pohlmann, ‘Wilhelm Ostwald: Farbe im Konflikt zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft’, Mitteilungen der Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gesellschaft zu GroÃŸbothen 7 (2002) 2, 39-53.
Philip Ball, ‘Color theory in science and art. Ostwald and the Bauhaus’, Angewandte Chemie (Engl. Ed.), 43 (2004) 4842-4.

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