Poverty (Armut)

Aloys Wach · 1919

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Palette

Graphite
42% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.5:1

Putty
17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.0:1

Caramel
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1

Slate blue
12% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.8:1

Green earth
9% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1

Tan
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Aloys Wach
1892–1940
Date: 1919
Type: Print
Medium: hand-colored woodcut
Place: Austrian
Period: 20th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 40, colourfulness 15

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1940: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2011. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Poverty (Armut)

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