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Before joining the Bauhaus Itten headed his own art school in Vienna. At the Bauhaus he designed an innovative introductory course: he let students explore form, color, rhythm and contrast. Itten's principles were of tremendous influence not only on art education, but also on Kandinsky and Klee.

Opposed to the Bauhaus producing commercial work, a longstanding conflict with Gropius led Itten to resign in 1923, when Moholy-Nagy took over his position.

JOHANNES ITTEN

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Life in Art and Teaching...    

Wonderful site about one of Itten's best students. Once you have entered the site, make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page (home.html) for links to her biography and images of her work. Plenty of wonderful paintings!

Biography  (in German) - from the Berliner Bauhaus Museum Web site. Shows portrait.
Itten, a color theorist, was the first to expand the color wheel to include 12 colors. Here is a color wheel that explains Itten's ratios..
Books
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color. (By Johannes Itten.Revised edition, 1997)
The Color Star (By Johannes Itten, 1997) A must-read for everybody working with colors, including Web designers.
Design and Form : The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later (By Johannes Itten, 1997)
The Elements of Color : A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (By Johannes Itten, 1985)

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