Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
"Tagebuch von Johannes Itten" – Berlin, 1930 – Articles about the Visual Arts with Illustrations and Photographs – From a Limited Edition of 300 Copies
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Tagebuch von Johannes Itten, Beiträge zu einem Kontrapunkt der bildenden Kunst [The Diary of Johannes Itten, Articles about Kontrapunkt in the Visual Arts]. Berlin: Itten-Schule, 1930. German.
Copy no. 70 of 300 copies. The complete text of the book was handwritten by Johannes Itten at the Art School which he had founded in Berlin and then lithographed.
The articles that appear in the book introduce Itten's theory about the visual arts – form, design and style. The book is accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and sketches made by Itten, as well by photographs of architectural structures and works of art, mounted on the leaves of the book (five of them in color).
Johannes Itten (1888-1967) an expressionist painter, designed, lecturer and art theorist. He was one of the pioneers of the Bauhaus style and even taught for several years at the Bauhaus Art School in Weimar. Later he established in Berlin the Itten-Schule Art School, where he published the book before us. The school was closed in 1934 by the Nazis.
[2] leaves, 112, [2] pp, 51.5x38.5cm. Good-fair condition. On several pages, traces of gluing (presumably, several of the photographs that were originally mounted on the leaves are missing). Most of the leaves have tissue guards (with tears). Stains. Creases and tears to endpaper and the edges of several leaves. Detached binding, stained and worn.
Not in NLI.
Copy no. 70 of 300 copies. The complete text of the book was handwritten by Johannes Itten at the Art School which he had founded in Berlin and then lithographed.
The articles that appear in the book introduce Itten's theory about the visual arts – form, design and style. The book is accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and sketches made by Itten, as well by photographs of architectural structures and works of art, mounted on the leaves of the book (five of them in color).
Johannes Itten (1888-1967) an expressionist painter, designed, lecturer and art theorist. He was one of the pioneers of the Bauhaus style and even taught for several years at the Bauhaus Art School in Weimar. Later he established in Berlin the Itten-Schule Art School, where he published the book before us. The school was closed in 1934 by the Nazis.
[2] leaves, 112, [2] pp, 51.5x38.5cm. Good-fair condition. On several pages, traces of gluing (presumably, several of the photographs that were originally mounted on the leaves are missing). Most of the leaves have tissue guards (with tears). Stains. Creases and tears to endpaper and the edges of several leaves. Detached binding, stained and worn.
Not in NLI.
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