Itten was a teacher at the bauhaus and introduced a foundation course, where he would encourage students to nurture their creative process before starting studies in their chosen art. They would learn his colour theories and create work out of mundane and geometrical objects, not unlike Schwitters' collages. Itten is credited with introducing the idea of a foundation course for all art students, something still used now. He used progressive and experimental teaching methods, including refusing to correct mistakes and playing music to begin a class, based on his previous job as an elementary school teacher. This caused him to be scolded by his colleagues in the bauhaus and he left in spring 1923. He went back to teach children.
"on the whole there is nothing wrong and nothing right, it simple lives and materializes through the interplay of forces..."
- Paul Klee
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"bauhaus" arranged by Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (book accompanied a gallery exhibition of bauhaus work)
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