ABSTRACT
The Gestalt-Theorie is more than a theory of perception: it is even more than a mere psychological theory. According to Max Wertheimer, Gestalten are integrated, articulated structures or systems within which the constituent parts are in dynamic interrelation with each other and with the whole. By the late 1920s, Paul Klee began to incorporate a number of themes, principles and figures from the Gestalt literature explicitly into his paintings. The positive impact that Gestalt psychologists had on students may have been due in part to the general fascination with holism that characterized young people during the Weimar period. Gestalt psychology always occupied much of Wertheimer's waking moments. He was constantly seeking new problems and situations to which he could apply fundamental aspects of the theory, and striving to attain an ever clearer way to explicate its role in human cognition, perception, and logic.
