Photo: Photograph: Paula Stockmar (as mentioned at https://bauhaus.daserste.de/credits ) Derivative work: MagentaGreen (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons

If you like Johannes Itten, read these authors

Swiss painter and art educator (1888-1967)

Also known as: Johannes van Itten, Иоганнес Иттен, 요하네스 이텐, ヨハネス・イッテン, 约翰内斯·伊顿, Иоханнес Иттен

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Johannes Itten, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Joseph Albers1888–1976
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Interaction of Color offers an experiential, pedagogical study of color perception rooted in Bauhaus teaching. (AI reason)
Report
Wassily Kandinsky1866–1944
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane theorize color and form with spiritual and systematic depth. (AI reason)
Report
Paul Klee1879–1940
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Pedagogical Sketchbook and notebooks present Bauhaus-era form and color theory through teaching exercises. (AI reason)
Report
László Moholy-Nagy1895–1946
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Vision in Motion and From Material to Architecture extend Bauhaus foundation-course pedagogy on material and form. (AI reason)
Report
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Theory of Colours explores the perceptual and psychological effects of color that underpin later color teaching. (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Rudolf Arnheim1904–2007
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Art and Visual Perception analyzes composition, form and color through the psychology of seeing. (AI reason)
Report
Faber Birren1900–1988
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Writes accessible treatises on color harmony, color psychology and practical color systems. (AI reason)
Report
Philipp Otto Runge1777–1810
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Farbenkugel presents a spherical color model that directly anticipates later color-wheel theories. (AI reason)
Report
Adolf Hölzel1853–1934
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
His writings on color contrasts and pictorial composition laid the foundations of modernist color pedagogy. (AI reason)
Report
Wilhelm Ostwald1853–1932
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Die Farbenfibel systematizes color order and harmony for artists and designers. (AI reason)
Report

Pick Johannes Itten and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.

Get your own suggestions

Known works

Kunst der Farbe (1961)
Gestaltungs- und Formenlehre : Vorkurs am Bauhaus und später (1964)
Johannes Itten (1957)
The elements of color (1970)
Bildanalysen (1988)