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Johannes Itten
[Swiss Designer, 1888-1967]
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Johannes Itten Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Johannes Itten at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin Description of Itten's preliminary course taught at the Bauhaus school 1919-1922
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project Space Composition, I [Raum Komposition I], 1944 Space Composition, II [Raum Komposition II], 1944
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART) Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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