Johannes Itten
Swiss painter, designer, and art educator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. 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.
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Born | (1888-11-11)11 November 1888 Südern-Linden, Switzerland |
Died | 25 March 1967(1967-03-25) (aged 78) Zürich, Switzerland |
Education | Academy of Arts, Stuttgart |
Known for | Painting, Drawing, Color theory, Architecture |
Notable work | Farbkreis (1961) |
Movement | Expressionism |
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