Farbkreis von johannes itten biography

  • Date, 17 February Source, Raster version from Wikimedia Commons.
  • Above,“Farbkreis” from “The Art of Color” (), by Johannes Itten, a Swiss painter and theorist who taught at the Bauhaus.
  • Von Walter Gropius in Weimar als Kunstschule eröffnet.

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    TRADITIONAL THEORY FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS.

    Above,“Farbkreis” from “The Art of Color” (), by Johannes Itten, a Swiss painter and theorist who taught at the Bauhaus. This hue circle is made up of three primary, three secondary and six tertiary colors.

    “The Color Star” () has eight disks with cut-outs that can be rotated over Itten’s star to compare colors.

    Now we have so many excellent digital color aids, like Adobe Color:

    But… I still remember art theory classes way back in art college. They were not that easy (we used to moan about them), but in retrospect, it was important knowledge. The basic concepts: primary, secondary, and tertiary colors (primary and secondary mixed). Hue, saturation, temperature, and so on. I know I sound like a dinosaur (and I do certainly fit that description), but I wish my students had a color theory class. These are valuable lessons to learn.

    Color Wheel Complimentary colors are opposite each other. Analagous colors are next to each othe

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    Itten, Johannes

  • Johannes Itten — (* November in Süderen Linden, Schweiz; † Mai in Zürich) war ein Schweizer Maler, Kunsttheoretiker und Kunstpädagoge. Itten zählt zu der Zürcher Schule der Konkreten …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Itten — Johannes Itten Johannes Itten, né le 11 novembre et mort le 25 mai à Zurich, est un peintre suisse. Johannes Itten, Farbkreis () Il fut l un des professeurs du Bauhaus de à Il prit dès son arrivée une …   Wikipédia en Français

  • ITTEN (J.) — ITTEN JOHANNES ( ) Si Johannes Itten n’a pas en tant que peintre l’importance d’un Klee ou d’un Kandinsky avec lesquels il professait au Bauhaus, il faut insister sur le caractère révolutionnaire de son enseignement (il s’est d’ailleurs&#; …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Itten — Farbkreis nach Johannes Itten () Johannes Itten (* November in Süderen Linden, Schweiz; † Mai in Zürich) war ein Schweizer Maler, Kunsttheoretiker und Kunstpädagoge. Itten zählt zu der Zürcher Schule der Konkreten … &

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    School Paintboxes,
    Color Theory and Color Perception (in Germany)

    Color Literacy

    Title Picture: School paintbox with "basic colors" from

    Single colors and basic color boxes

    The color came into schools very late and very hesitantly. It was only in the gods third of the 19th century that efforts were made to not only have drawing lessons in drawing, but also to illustrate certain drawings - mainly ornaments - in color after they had been carefully drawn. Initially, only a few isolated colors were used for this purpose, but this was progress in view of the then not uncommon practice of laying out drawn areas with only one color, for which kaffe absud was often used [cf. 1, p. 61]. The colors were relatively expensive, which is why only a few and these were only bought gradually over months. The most widespread were pigment pieces pressed in the shape of a button, which fryst vatten why they were also referred to as button colors (Fig. 1). A piece of paper was stuck on the back, which