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Percy George Howard Kemp Prossor (HK) | |
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 "A Black Room" by HK Prossor | |
| Born | 1867 Hove, Sussex, England |
| Died | 25 June 1959 (aged 91) London, England |
| Resting place | London |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Interior design and using colour as a medicine |
Percy George Howard Kemp Prossor (known as “HK” and sometimes as Kemp Prossor) (1867-25 June 1959) was an English art connoisseur who advocated the use of colour for treating mood and other psychological conditions, a theory that was most popular between 1917 and 1919.[1]
During the First World War he gave up part of his house for an extension to the Ethel McCaul Hospital in Welbeck Street, London, which with his encouragement used colour therapy to treat victims of shell shock (PTSD).
- ^ Fox, James (30 July 2015). British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924. Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-107-10587-4.