Itten bases his concept of scale on Goethe’s color theory. In line with Itten, Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky has discussed colors and their physical effect on the human ...

Itten may have caused discord at the German school, but there is nothing but harmony to found in ‘Chromatic’, a worthwhile tribute to the father of Bauhaus colour theory.

“We did so much, and yet you don’t see anything,” laughs architect Marcus Klink of Itten+Brechbühl, the Swiss firm that carried out the renovation and whose cofounder, in 1922, was none other than ...