Itten is best known for his highly influential book on color theory, and for his role as a principal character in the Bauhaus, the German school of design, arts, and crafts established by Walter ...

Itten bases his concept of scale on Goethe’s color theory. In line with Itten, Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky has discussed colors and their physical effect on the human ...

In 1919, Johannes Itten joined the Bauhaus faculty, where he developed his pioneering ‘colour sphere’ – now the basis for many other schematics. The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts' ...