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Born in Südern-Linden , Switzerland, he had a Friedrich Froebel influenced education and was initially a teacher where he was exposed to the ideas of psychoanalysis. He later enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva but then returned to Berne after been unimpressed with the educators there.
He then received some teaching from Eugène Gilliard , who was an abstract painter. From 1919-1922, Itten taught at the Bauhaus, developing the so-called preliminary course which was to teach students the basics of material characteristics, composition, and colour. He later published a book - The Art of Color- which describes these ideas as a furthering of Adolf Hozel 's colour wheel. Itten's colour wheel went on to include 12 colours.
After falling out with Walter GropiusWalter Adolph Gropius ( May 18, 1883 July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of a building advisor to the government with the same name, and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber ( 1855- 19 he resigned from the Bauhaus School. His works exploring the use and composition of colour resemble the square op-art canvases of artists such as Josef AlbersJosef Albers ( 1888 1976), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. Born in Bottrop, Westphalia, on, Max Bill and Bridget RileyBridget Louise Riley (born 1931) is a British painter, one of the foremost proponents of op art, art exploiting the fallibility of the human eye. Riley was born in London and studied art first at Goldsmiths College and later at the Royal College of Art, w, and the expressionist works of Wassily KandinskyWassily Kandinsky (first name sometimes spelled as "Vasily," "Vassily" or "Vasilii) ( December 16, 1866 December 13, 1944) was a painter and art theorist. He was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odesa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and.
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