Werkbund – Creative Combinatorics https://notes.hapke.de as a foundation of creativity, information organisation and art Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 Wilhelm Ostwald and the Werkbund https://notes.hapke.de/art/wilhelm-ostwald-and-the-werkbund/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:03:02 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=7 In 1912 Ostwald joined the Werkbund which aimed at standardising industrial design. He published a paper on “standards” in the yearbook of the Werkbund in which he called art a “social product” which made it necessary to standardise it. Wilhelm Ostwald, ‘Normen’, Jahrbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes 3 (1914) 77-86

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  • Wilhelm Ostwald, ‘Normen’, Jahrbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes 3 (1914) 77-86

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]]> Color theory https://notes.hapke.de/art/color-theory/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:46:25 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=21 In 1914 Ostwald was asked by the German Werkbund to prepare a “rational” atlas of colors (see Figure 2). His ideas to create art from a scientific viewpoint were com-bated by most contemporary artists. His imperative “order = legality = harmony” and his color theory had influence on the German Werkbund, the Bauhaus and the […]

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]]> In 1914 Ostwald was asked by the German Werkbund to prepare a “rational” atlas of colors (see Figure 2). His ideas to create art from a scientific viewpoint were com-bated by most contemporary artists.

Kleiner Farbkreis / Small circle of colors

His imperative “order = legality = harmony” and his color theory had influence on the German Werkbund, the Bauhaus and the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl.

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