Goethe founded his own color theory. He took her for his main work - even before his literary works.
Translators Ngụy Hữu Tâm and Nguyen Quang Minh talk about Goethe's theory of colors and the afterlife of Goethe's scientific observations for the Bauhaus.
Goethe was not only the most important poet of the German language, but one of the great universal scholars. He studied theology, medicine and natural science research. His color theory covers all his color research. Isaac Newton discovered that the color spectrum arises from the division of white light. Goethe pursued a different approach: brightness and darkness form the basis for his color theory. He was very close to the philosophical thoughts of Friedrich W. Schelling on light and darkness and about good and evil. Goethe assumed that color-knowing is a mental achievement and he assigned a character trait to each color. His physical findings have been scientifically refuted. His color theory lives on and received international recognition by Johannes Itten and the BAUHAUS.
Ngụy Hữu Tâm, among other titles, translated Albert Einstein’s biography by Albert Folsing, the dictionary of sociology of Enduweit und writings by Siegmund Freud about dreams and dream interpretation.
Nguyen Quang Minh works as a teacher, researcher and architect in Hanoi. He studied architecture in Hanoi and then did his doctorate in Germany at the Bauhaus University Weimar. His research interests include sustainable urban development, ecological and energy-efficient architecture, housing construction and urban sociology. Nguyen Quang Minh has been a member of the Vietnamese Architects Association since February 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the National Book Prize for Architecture "World Building History" and in 2014 received a scholarship from the DAAD for an internship in Germany as a fellow scientist.
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