(Südern-Linden 1888 - 1967 Zurich)

Diagonalen. 1962.

Oil on canvas.

Signed and dated on the reverse: Itten 62.

60 x 60 cm.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Klaus Itten, September 2019, Bern. We thank him for his kind support.

Provenance:
- Prof. J. Schader, Zurich.
- By descent to the present owner, since then private collection Switzerland.

Literature: Rotzler, Willy/Itten, Anneliese: Johnannes Itten. Werke und Schriften, Zurich 1972, no. 1099 (with ill.).

“Each creative work of art begins with an impulse of love from the heart, it grows, it enters the consciousness of the artist, through the intellect it becomes something concrete, controlled and measured through the perception of the external world, finally it is thrust into the world in the hour of its birth, and led towards independence and maturity with tender and judicious care." Johannes Itten