matthias
gelb
A Master Silversmith Lost to Time: The Enigmatic Matthias Gelb The name Matthias Gelb resonates faintly through the annals of 17th-century German craftsmanship, a whisper attached to an object of extraordinary beauty and skill – the tankard created in 1671. While biographical details remain stubbornly …
A portrait built from matthias gelb's own colours
Every 1 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.
