The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Hans
Hoffmann

1530 — 1591 · Renaissance

A Life of Color and Motion Born Johan Georg Albert in Weißenburg, Bavaria, the man who would become known to history as Hans Hofmann carried the spirit of the European avant-garde across the Atlantic. His early years were shaped by the streets of Munich, where …

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Hans Hoffmann
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Hans Hoffmann's own colours

Every 6 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.

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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