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ITTEN, JOHANNES

* 11.11.1888 Süderen-Linden, † 25.3.1967 Zurich

Born into a farming family in the Bernese Oberland in 1888, Johannes Itten followed in his father's footsteps in 1904 and began training as a teacher at the cantonal teacher training college in Berne. By 1909 he had already made the decision to become a painter, but was not satisfied with his art studies in Geneva. In addition to artists and musicians, it was there that he met Eugène Gilliard, whose book on the fundamentals of design was crucial to the young artist's own theory of art. In 1913 he moved to Stuttgart as a pupil of Adolf Hölzel, which marked the beginning of his artistic career. With Hölzel he learned colour-form analysis and soon became his best student. Itten soon turned to abstract painting and developed his own independent style in a very short time. In a gesture of farewell, so to speak, his teacher Hölzel organised an exhibition for him at Herwarth Walden’s gallery, which testifies to the great respect and affection between teacher and pupil. In 1916, the young artist moved to Vienna, where, as a teacher at a private art school, he was able for the first time to test and further develop the pedagogical concept he had been working on for years. Here he met Alma Mahler, who introduced him to Walter Gropius.

With the founding of the Bauhaus School in Weimar in 1919, Gropius created something unique and unprecedented: for the first time, the visual arts, the performing arts and the applied arts were taught on an equal footing with the common goal of creating a total work of art under the primacy of functionality. Itten became the teacher of what was known as the preliminary course, in which the students learned the basics of form and colour design and the laws of form and colour, but, according to Itten's vision, they were also intended to acquire an understanding of where their strengths lay in the arts. Soon, Johannes Itten, who also saw his teaching as a mission which he passionately pursued and defended, and Walter Gropius, who was more rational and guided by reason, found themselves at odds and went their separate ways in 1922.

In 1929 Itten opened his own school in Berlin and in 1932 also became a teacher at the newly founded Fachschule für Textile Flächenkunst in Krefeld. As a former Bauhaus teacher, Itten was considered a "degenerate artist" after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, which led to the closure of both art schools in the 1930s. In 1938 he decided to return to his homeland and took up the post of director of the School of Arts and Crafts and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zurich. His long-standing interest in Asian art and philosophy culminated in 1952 in the founding of the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, which he directed until 1956.

Artistically, Johannes Itten is associated with the Bauhaus and abstract painting. However, his art theories and pedagogy had a lasting influence on the art of the 20th century. There are hardly any other artists who recognised and lived art in such a comprehensive and consistent way as Itten. Johannes Itten died in Zurich on 25 March 1967.


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Lot 3095* - Z24 Art Suisse - vendredi 20 juin 2008, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Linden 1888–1963 Zürich)
Mondlicht-Landschaft. 1958.
Öl auf Leinwand.
Verso auf Leinwand signiert und datiert: Itten 58.
50 x 65 cm.

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Lot 3429* - A183 PostWar & Contemporary - samedi 09 décembre 2017, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888 - 1967 Zurich)
Zweiklang. 1964.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on the reverse: Itten 1964.
60 x 60 cm.

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Lot 3458 - A185 PostWar & Contemporary - samedi 30 juin 2018, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888–1967 Zurich)
Simultanes Leuchten. 1964.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on the reverse: Itten 1964, also on the backing board of the frame.
70 x 60 cm.

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Lot 3281* - Z27 Art Impressionniste & Moderne - vendredi 04 décembre 2009, 16h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888–1967 Zürich)
Abstrakte Komposition. 1959.
Gouache auf Papier.
Unten rechts signiert, datiert und gewidmet: JItten, 1959, für Andreas Pollitz.
39 x 28 cm.

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Lot 3460* - A187 PostWar & Contemporary - samedi 08 décembre 2018, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Südern-Linden 1888 - 1967 Zurich)
Collage. 1964.
Collage with colour samples and watercolour.
On the reverse with the estate stamp, and with the dedication: W. Rotzler mit Dank für die Rede in Rapperswil Am 21. Okt. 1967 Anneliese Itten.
30 x 24.3 cm.

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Lot 3125* - Z30 Art Suisse - vendredi 24 juin 2011, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Linden 1888–1963 Zürich)
Komposition. 1949.
Gouache auf Papier.
Oben links signiert und datiert: Itten 49. Rückseitig Nachlassstempel.
32 x 48 cm.

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Lot 3091* - A183 Art Suisse - vendredi 08 décembre 2017, 17h00

ITTEN, JOHANNES

(Südern-Linden (Bern) 1888 - 1967 Zurich)
Im Wald. "Krefelder Stadtwald". 1935.
Watercolour on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Itten. 35.
61 x 48.5 cm (visible measurements).

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Lot 3428* - A183 PostWar & Contemporary - samedi 09 décembre 2017, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888 - 1967 Zurich)
Blau-Rot Modulation. 1964.
Colour pencil and pencil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Itten 64. On the reverse with the estate stamp: Nachlass Johannes Itten.
16.2 x 15.5 cm on 22.5 x 19 cm.

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Lot 3401* - A201 PostWar & Contemporary - jeudi 30 juin 2022, 17h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Linden 1888–1963 Zurich)
Dark Ribbon. 1957.
Watercolour on thin paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Itten 57.
40 × 27 cm.

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Lot 3101 - Z19 Art Impressionniste & Moderne - mercredi 07 décembre 2005, 15h30

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888–1967 Zürich)
Komposition. 1961.
Tusche und Gouache auf Papier.
Unten rechts signiert und datiert: J. Iten, 1961.
35 x 50 cm.

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Lot 3431* - A183 PostWar & Contemporary - samedi 09 décembre 2017, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Wachseldorn 1888 - 1967 Zurich)
Zeichen auf Braun. 1962.
Watercolour and Indian Ink on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Itten. 1962.
29,5 x 21 cm.

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Lot 3154 - Z30 Art Suisse - vendredi 24 juin 2011, 14h00

JOHANNES ITTEN

(Linden 1888–1963 Zürich)
Feldlandschaft.
Aquarell auf Papier.
Unten rechts signiert und datiert: Itten. 55.
24 x 23 cm.

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