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Mathias
Wilhelm Eckhoff

1791 — 1871 · 19th Century

A Life of Duty and Canvas The life of Mathias Wilhelm Eckhoff unfolds across the shifting landscapes of nineteenth-century Norway. Born in 1791 in Østre Toten Municipality, he moved through a world defined by rigid social structures and the quiet observation of the natural environment. …

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Mathias Wilhelm Eckhoff
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Mathias Wilhelm Eckhoff's own colours

Every 3 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