The Masters · Chromatic Profile

August
Wolf

1842 — 1915 · 19th Century

The Precision of the Copyist August Wolf was a painter defined by the technical rigor required to replicate the past. Born in Weinheim, Germany, his career was not built on the pursuit of a new style, but on the disciplined imitation of established ones. He …

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August Wolf
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from August Wolf's own colours

Every 39 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers