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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.
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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.
Summary of Johannes Itten. Trained as an elementary school teacher, Itten joined the first instructors at the Bauhaus, where he was a Master from 1919-1923. His development of the preliminary class of the school revolutionized art education.
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.
Johannes Itten encouraged exploration of color through contrasts and polarities, always urging students to feel their own way into an exercise. He observed that each student gravitated to a distinct category of contrast exercises, revealing deep-seated affinities between personality types and aesthetic choices:
Mazdaznan had a significant although often misunderstood impact on the life and work of Johannes Itten (1888–1967), a key figure in the development of the Weimar Bauhaus. A devout practitioner of Mazdaznan, he was responsible for introducing it to students of the Bauhaus in the early 1920s.
Johannes Itten was notable for both his artistic output and his work as an educator and theoretician. The Swiss-born artist spent much of his life in Germany, where he was connected with the artistic avant-garde and collaborated intensely as a lecturer at the Bauhaus.
Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter and important teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. A believer in mysticism, Itten developed comprehensive color theories which drew on both science and emotion, as evinced in his book The Art of Color (1961).
…the Swiss painter and sculptor Johannes Itten, which itself became the most widely copied aspect of the Bauhaus curriculum. Students explored two- and three-dimensional design using a variety of simple materials, such as wire, wood, and paper.
Designer: Johannes Itten (Swiss, Süderen-Linden 1888–1967 Zurich) Date: 1914. Medium: Hammered brass. Dimensions: 2 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 4 7/8 in., 0.5 lb. (6.4 × 12.1 × 12.4 cm, 0.2 kg) Classification: Metalwork-Brass. Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2009. Accession Number: 2009.213
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