Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten
Itten c. 1920
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

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.