Frank
Auerbach
Frühes Leben und die Flucht aus der Dunkelheit Frank Helmut Auerbach, geboren in Berlin am 29. April 1931, verkörpert eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte der Resilienz, die tief in das Gefüge seiner kraftvoll expressiven Kunst eingewoben ist. Sein frühes Leben wurde tragischerweise vom aufkommenden Schatten der nationalsozialistischen …
A portrait built from Frank Auerbach's own colours
Every 16 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.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
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.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.