Movement · 1919–1933

Bauhaus

Color taught as a discipline: Itten's color wheel, the color courses of Klee and Kandinsky, and Josef Albers, who took the school's color teaching to America.

Across 14 works, the colors are mostly yellow (21%), brown (18%) and gray (17%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: pale golden yellow, dark muted azure teal, silver, light orange and lime green.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 040 pale golden yellow 18.0% of canvas
• MG 222 charcoal 9.4% of canvas
• MG 206 silver 6.5% of canvas
• MG 084 dark muted azure teal 4.9% of canvas
• MG 173 putty 4.4% of canvas
• MG 214 pewter 4.1% of canvas
• MG 215 grey 3.8% of canvas
• MG 208 pigeon grey 3.2% of canvas
• MG 213 light grey 3.0% of canvas
• MG 029 light orange 2.7% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 2.3% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 2.2% of canvas
• MG 033 light amber 1.9% of canvas
• MG 216 dark grey 1.9% of canvas
• MG 038 light gold 1.9% of canvas
• MG 039 gold 1.8% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.63

Contrast

0.41

Vividness

0.058

Warmth

+0.53

Complexity

127 cells

Hue range

0.43

Focus

0.14

Artists

• Wassily Kandinsky 1866–1944
• Paul Klee 1879–1940
• Oskar Schlemmer 1888–1943
• Josef Albers 1888–1976
• László Moholy-Nagy 1895–1946

Works

• E IV (Construction VII), 1922
• LIS, 1922
• Senecio, 1922
• Twittering Machine, 1922
• On White II, 1923
• Komposition Z VIII, 1924
• Concentric Group, 1925
• Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925
• Group of Fourteen in Imaginary Architecture, 1930
• Bauhaus Stairway, 1932
• Homage to the Square: Light Passage, 1956
• Homage to the Square: Yellow Signal, 1962
• Homage to the Square: New Light, 1967
• Homage to the Square: Promise, 1967