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Nothing works without colour!

A live animated film theatre on Johannes Itten’s theory of colour

This event is part of 100 Years Bauhaus. The opening festival.

Where?

Berlin, Akademie der Künste - Standort Hanseatenweg

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When?

Sat, 19.01.2019 | 12:00 - 13:00

What?

Theatre / Stage

by Katrin Rothe

Known for his flamboyant character, the painter Johannes Itten played an integral role in the establishment of the early Bauhaus. In a film produced before the eyes and ears of a live audience, the director Katrin Rothe sets out to examine the life of the Bauhaus instructor as well as her own years at university, during which she became acquainted with Itten’s colour theory in different ways. Katrin Rothe pages back and forth through Itten’s scintillating
biography, creating a musical-fanciful series of images depicting the turbulent times of the early Bauhaus. Wondrous colours, forms
and figures jump from the drawing board and from Rothe’s own sketchpads and notes onto the movie screen in a live performance where various encounters take shape.
The young, barely 30-year-old Itten meets his older self who looks back at his time in Weimar, the abstract forms of geometry and white architecture meet a sea of rhythmically flowing colours, and the free, easy-going exercises of the Bauhaus instructor encounter the older Itten’s intense interest in Asian lifestyles and philosophies. The result is a Bauhaus awash in colour, or as Itten himself once wrote: Nothing works without colour.

Concept, direction & live animation Katrin Rothe
Dramaturgy Janek Müller
Speaker Olaf Helbing
Music Thomas Mävers, Olaf Helbing
Live drawings Lydia Günther
Assistant Knuth Rothe

Production Kunstfest Weimar 2018

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Admission free of charge. Please register here for the event.

Address

Akademie der Künste - Standort Hanseatenweg
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin, Germany

Accessibility

  • On-site assistance

Funding formula

100 jahre bauhaus. Das Eröffnungsfestival is an initiative of the Bauhaus Berlin Dessau Weimar Cooperation and is supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation. The festival is staged in cooperation with the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.

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