Johannes Itten Artist

Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliche 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.

Personal facts

Johannes Itten
Birth dateNovember 11, 1888
Birth place
Wachseldorn
Nationality
Switzerland
Date of deathMay 27, 1967
Place of death
Zürich

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