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Ostwald's first Color Harmony Manual was a set of 12 handbooks showing complementary hues. The first edition was published in 1942. It contained 680 color chips. Each color chip was a 5/8 inch square and had a tab where the Ostwald notation was written. [2] A Color Harmony Index was also produced. It used larger 1 inch square color chips.
The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder. Old master paintings had previously dominated the market. [3] In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874. [citation needed]
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɔstˌvalt] ⓘ; 2 September [O.S. 21 August] 1853 – 4 April 1932) was a German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry , with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius . [ 1 ]
A painting that sold for less than $50 at a garage sale could be an original Van Gogh worth $15 million, experts say.. The canvas was found by an unsuspecting antiques collector at a Minnesota ...
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wilhelm Ostwald and is now published by Europa-Lehrmittel .
A longtime New York-based art dealer stumbled upon a painting at a Hamptons barn sale for which he paid just $50 — and now the rare piece is expected to be auctioned off for six figures.
Though the King Seeley "Yellow Submarine" lunchbox from 1968, is worth up to $1,300, an original Smokey Bear lunchbox from the early 1970s can go for over $700 on eBay. The most valuable ...
Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (27 May 1883 – 22 November 1943) [1] was a German chemist and biologist researching colloids. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ostwald was born in Riga , the son of the 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry , Wilhelm Ostwald , [ 4 ] and died in Dresden .