Joseph
Anton Koch
The Architect of the Heroic Landscape Joseph Anton Koch stands as a singular figure in Austrian art history—a painter who deftly navigated the shifting currents of Neoclassicism into the burgeoning fervor of German Romanticism. Born in 1768 in Elbigenalp, Austria, his early life was marked …
A portrait built from Joseph Anton Koch's own colours
Every 19 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.
