Artist

Johannes Itten

Portrait of Johannes Itten

Swiss, 1888–1967

Johannes Itten was a Swiss Art Informel artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Johannes Itten was born in Thun.

Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the 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.

Collections represented

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