What is Colour?

What is Colour? The Collected Works of Michael H. Wilson

This question stayed with Wilson for the rest of his life. He pursued it from multiple perspectives, beginning with the physiological aspect of color and progressing to the physical, philosophical, artistic, therapeutic and lastly spiritual aspects. The results of his investigations, which he published in leading scientific and Anthroposophical journals, are presented here together with his monograph for the first time in one volume. Since the chronology of his works happens to mirror loosely the structure of Goethe’s Theory of Colors, ”a Goethean approach to a fundamental problem” is a fitting description of his works on color as a whole.

About the Author

Michael Wilson was a musician, curative educator, scientist, translator and General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain. Michael Henry Wilson was born into a Quaker family in 1901. His mother Theodora Wilson, had met Rudolf Steiner and visited the first Goetheanum. For some years he was a professional violinist and conductor. He studied at the Goetheanum and became fluent in German. Later he was a founder and director of the first curative home in the UK. He translated a number of Rudolf Steiner’s works and researched and lectured on Goethe’s Theory of Colours. Michael Henry Wilson passed away in 1985.