Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter, creator and teacher.
He was born on 11 november 1888 in Südern-Linden, and died on 27 may 1967 in Zürich.
In 1938, he had to leave Germany and went to Amsterdam.
After that he became the leader of the Kunstwerbeschule in Zürich.

Johannes Itten

In 1966, he got a prize from a Dutch paintfactory named Sikkens, the name of the prize was the Sikkens-prize, for colour and space.

Itten's colourwheel

He was the inventor of a new color theory, with primary, secondary and tertiaire colours.
If you mix two primary colours, you get a secondary colour.
If you give a secondary colour a tint of a primary colour, you get a tertiare colour.


This is my self-made colourwheel. We had to make it in art class.
I used paint, because we had to.
I think i did pretty well on the left side of it, but on the right side I failed at the violet colours.
Also, now I see it like this, I reversed the orange colours.
But I think I did pretty well with green.
I got a 7 for it, so I'm happy.

Bank note

This is my banknote I made for the art lessons.
We had to use East-Indian ink.
We weren't allowed to use colours, only black.
The assignment was to make a new banknote, we could make everything we want, I chose to make some sort of tentacles.
There are some totally black parts in my banknote. On that places I dropped some ink, and I decided to make it all black.
I filled up the background with dots, after my teacher said so.
Personally I think i did pretty well, I'm only not that good with ink.