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Joakim
Skovgaard

1856 — 1933 · 19th Century

A Life Rooted in Danish Soil Joakim Skovgaard entered the world in Copenhagen in 1856, born into a family where the brush was as essential as the hearth. As the eldest son of Peter Christian Skovgaard, his early education was intimate and direct, receiving drawing …

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Joakim Skovgaard
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Joakim Skovgaard's own colours

Every 43 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