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Critical Retrospective View at Itten's Theory of Color
The artist painter Johannes Itten was a Bauhaus teacher (school of architecture and applied arts, founded 1919 in Weimar).
In 1961 he published his book " Kunst der Farbe " (Art of Color). In it he presented a choice of concepts concerning the theory of color which were common in those days.
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Above all, he was oriented towards the ideas and writings of Newton, Goethe, Runge, and Hoelzel.
Certainly not least for the reason that there were no other useful publications available for instruction purposes regarding this topic, that book was translated into many languages and spread around the world.
This happened now more than 4 decades ago. Unfortunately still today many universities, technical colleges, trade schools, and all-around schools base their teaching on that book. What Itten compiled were the ideas of his time, mostly intuitive concepts of artists.
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