Johannes Itten
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Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor
Itten c. 1920
The grave of Itten, his second wife Anneliese, née Schlösser (1913-2002), and of one of their three children, Klaus Itten (1944-2023), who was a professor of geography at the University of Zurich, at the cemetery of Hönggerberg in Zürich.
Color solid
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A color solid is the three-dimensional representation of a color space or model and can be thought as an analog of, for example, the one-dimensional color wheel, which depicts the variable of hue ; or
Munsell Color Tree
Interior cross section of Munsell's color sphere and color tree, 1915. Munsell was the first known person that separated hue, value, and chroma into perceptually uniform and independent dimensions, and he was the first to illustrate the colors systematically in three-dimensional space.
Philipp Otto Runge’s Farbenkugel (color sphere), 1810, showing the surface of the sphere (top two images), and horizontal and vertical cross sections (bottom two images)
Color sphere of Johannes Itten, 1919–20. A much clearer representation of his model appears in The Art of Color, 1961, which cannot be reproduced here for copyright reasons.