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Johannes Itten

1888 - 1967

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Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Itten is the 201st most popular painter (down from 184th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 49th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Painter.

Johannes Itten is most famous for being an early pioneer of the Bauhaus school of art and design.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Johannes Itten ranks 201 out of 2,023. Before him are Aristide Maillol, Pietro da Cortona, Hans Baldung, Agostino Carracci, Niko Pirosmani, and Maurice Utrillo. After him are Han van Meegeren, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Eugène Boudin, Thomas Gainsborough, Hendrik Goltzius, and Sonia Delaunay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Johannes Itten ranks 28. Before him are Raymond Chandler, Eugene O'Neill, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, and F. W. Murnau. After him are Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, Anton Makarenko, and Alexander Friedmann. Among people deceased in 1967, Johannes Itten ranks 28. Before him are Richard Kuhn, Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Jaroslav Heyrovský, and Rodion Malinovsky. After him are Casimir Funk, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, Wolfgang Köhler, Woody Guthrie, and Hermann Joseph Muller.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johannes Itten ranks 61 out of 1,015. Before him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Auguste Piccard (1884), and Michel Mayor (1942). After him are Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Werner Arber (1929), Hans Küng (1928), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Gabriel Cramer (1704), and Emil Jannings (1884).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Johannes Itten ranks 5. Before him are Paul Klee (1879), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Angelica Kauffman (1741), and Henry Fuseli (1741). After him are Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), H. R. Giger (1940), Charles Gleyre (1806), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702).

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