Farbe als Sprache: Robert Delaunay, Josef Albers, Richard Paul Lohse

Author
Albrecht, Hans Joachim
 
Title
Farbe als Sprache. Robert Delaunay – Josef Albers – Richard Paul Lohse
 
Series
DuMont Kunst-Taschenbücher, Volume 7
 
Publisher
DuMont Schauberg, Cologne
 
Year
1974
 
Format
Soft cover
 
ISBN
3770106555
 
Condition
Signs of use
 
About this book
Farbe als Sprache ("Colour as Language") is Hans Joachim Albrecht's concise study of colour as an autonomous artistic means of expression. Through the work of three pivotal twentieth-century artists – Robert Delaunay, Josef Albers and Richard Paul Lohse – Albrecht traces how colour evolved from a descriptive tool into a structural language in its own right. Delaunay's Orphic prismatic abstraction, Albers's systematic investigations of colour interaction, and Lohse's rigorous Concrete-Art colour serialism together illustrate the book's central argument: that colour can carry meaning, rhythm and form independently of representation.
 
First published by DuMont in Cologne in 1974 as volume 7 of the popular DuMont Kunst-Taschenbücher series, the book became a standard introduction to colour theory in modern art and was reissued in several later editions.