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Traugott
Richard (Photographer)

1835 — 1903 · 19th Century

A Vision of Swiss Heritage Traugott Richard was a 19th-century photographer whose lens captured the very soul of the Swiss landscape and its people. Operating primarily from Maenedorf, in the Canton of Zurich, his work serves as a profound ethnographic record of a bygone era. …

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Traugott Richard (Photographer)
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Traugott Richard (Photographer)'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.

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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