Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten | |
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Itten c. 1920 | |
| Born | 11 November 1888 Südern-Linden, Switzerland |
| Died | 25 March 1967 (aged 78) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Education | Academy of Arts, Stuttgart |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Color theory, Architecture |
| Notable work | Farbkreis (1961) |
| Movement | Expressionism |
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.