Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann, Illustration of the four primary colours: their planar relation to each other (study from Kandinsky’s course), 1930 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, photo: Markus Hawlik

Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann, Illustration of the four primary colours: their planar relation to each other (study from Kandinsky’s course), 1930 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, photo: Markus Hawlik

Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann, Illustration of the four primary colours: their planar relation to each other (study from Kandinsky’s course), 1930

Wassily Kandinsky’s courses on colour became famous: in them, students such as Heinrich Bormann were asked to test Kandinsky’s assignment of the three primary colours – yellow, red and blue – to the three basic shapes of triangle, square and circle.

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