Page "Wolfgang Metzger" Paragraph 5

The early major work Gesetze des Sehens ( Laws of Seeing ) first appeared in serial part issues, edited by the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt.

Expanded editions were printed in 1936, 1954, and 1975.

In this work Metzger supplemented his collection of phenomena from everyday perception and the fine arts, always endeavoring to find ever more compelling illustrations for the Gestalt point of view.

As Heinz Heckhausen has pointed out this work is a masterpiece for those who come to it without an intense background in the psychology of perception ; in a nontechnical style Metzger moves the reader toward a deeper experience, and sometimes an altered conception, of the visual world.