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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Itten has received more than 432,044 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Itten is the 184th most popular painter (down from 164th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 36th in 2019) and the 4th 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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  • 66.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Johannes Itten ranks 184 out of 2,023. Before him are Ivan Shishkin, Bernardo Bellotto, Fra Bartolomeo, Anton Raphael Mengs, Han van Meegeren, and Anselm Kiefer. After him are Benozzo Gozzoli, Jan Matejko, Maurice de Vlaminck, Domenichino, Hans Baldung, and Sonia Delaunay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Johannes Itten ranks 26. Before him are Herbert Spencer Gasser, Frits Zernike, Alexander Friedmann, Eugene O'Neill, Richard E. Byrd, and Friedrich Fromm. After him are T. S. Eliot, Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, F. W. Murnau, Selman Waksman, and Friedrich Olbricht. Among people deceased in 1967, Johannes Itten ranks 21. Before him are André Maurois, Edward Hopper, Jayne Mansfield, Gordon Allport, Rodion Malinovsky, and Ilya Ehrenburg. After him are Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, Richard Kuhn, Wolfgang Köhler, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Françoise Dorléac.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johannes Itten ranks 49 out of 1,015. Before him are Felix Bloch (1905), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Benjamin Constant (1767), and Auguste Piccard (1884). After him are Robert Walser (1878), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Henry Fuseli (1741), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), and Gabriel Cramer (1704).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Johannes Itten ranks 4. Before him are Paul Klee (1879), Arnold Böcklin (1827), and Angelica Kauffman (1741). After him are Henry Fuseli (1741), H. R. Giger (1940), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889).

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