Johannes Itten, Analyses of Old Masters, pp. 1–2 (from: Utopia: Documents of Reality), 1921 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Johannes Itten, Analyses of Old Masters, pp. 1–2 (from: Utopia: Documents of Reality), 1921 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Johannes Itten, Analyses of Old Masters, 1921

For Johannes Itten, typography in the early years of the Bauhaus was above all a means of artistic expression. In his ‘Analyses of Old Masters’, he attempted with his students to give pictorial expression to literary content through Expressionist fonts and combinations of various typefaces and type sizes.

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