Johannes Itten, along with Walter Gropius and others, was one of the most important founders of the Bauhaus in Weimar, and a teacher at the same time. Even if Itten was not a mathematician, he had a great interest in diferent geometric forms, and revealed a great mathematical intuition. Itten realized “by hand” the important Fire Tower, applying translations, reductions and rotations of cubes and of portions of cone. On the occasion of the Kunstfest Weimar 2019, the organizers of the events, which were specifcally dedicated to Itten, invited us to describe in mathematical language the lithograph entitled Das Haus des Weissen Mannes (1921), in which the cube is again the “protagonist” of mathematical transformations.
The House of the White Man: A Mathematical Description
E. Marchetti;L. Rossi
2020-01-01
Abstract
Johannes Itten, along with Walter Gropius and others, was one of the most important founders of the Bauhaus in Weimar, and a teacher at the same time. Even if Itten was not a mathematician, he had a great interest in diferent geometric forms, and revealed a great mathematical intuition. Itten realized “by hand” the important Fire Tower, applying translations, reductions and rotations of cubes and of portions of cone. On the occasion of the Kunstfest Weimar 2019, the organizers of the events, which were specifcally dedicated to Itten, invited us to describe in mathematical language the lithograph entitled Das Haus des Weissen Mannes (1921), in which the cube is again the “protagonist” of mathematical transformations.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
