ABOUT

Axel Buether is one of Germany's leading colour experts and researchers. He is a Professor of Didactics of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Design and Art of the University of Wuppertal. He held Professorships of Design Fundamentals: Colour, Light, Space at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Perceptual Psychology and Creativity at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Design and Design Theory at the University of Siegen. Since 2007 he has chaired the Board of the German Colour Association (Deutsches Farbenzentrum) - Central Institute for Colour in Science and Art.

After training as a stonemason and working as a restorer and freelance stone sculptor, he studied architecture at the TU Berlin, University of Arts Berlin and the Architectural Association London. He received his PhD from the University of Stuttgart on the subject of Semiotics of Visual Space.

In his design practice, Axel Buether realised numerous projects in the fields of architecture, exhibition design, scenography and media art. Among those are a colour design and development of PRO ARCHITECTURA 3.0 tile collection for Villeroy & Boch that won a Red Dot Award 2021 for product design, Fortress Xperience, a multimedia design experience exhibition in Dresden, winner of ADC Competition 2020 and a Media Art Installation İzmir Mozaic at PORTIZMIR International Contemporary Art Triennial.

Axel Buether makes colour accessible beyond specialist circles through his popular science lectures, publications, conferences and radio broadcasts. More about his work can be found on www.axelbuether.de.

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