Jan
Weissenbruch
The Architect of Light and Shadow Born in The Hague in 1822, Jan Weissenbruch entered a world where art was a family language. His father, Johannes, was a painter and collector whose private gallery provided the young Jan with an early education in the works …
A portrait built from Jan Weissenbruch's own colours
Every 10 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.