Haus des weißen Mannes (Premium German etching paper) Size • Frame:16x20 • Unframed were symbolic of refinement and

were symbolic of refinement and aristocratic tastes

highlighting a gap between past and present perceptions

flowing water vs

reaching toward the planets beyond

Haus des weißen Mannes (Premium German etching paper) Size • Frame:16x20 • Unframed were symbolic of refinement andJohannes Itten's 1921 lithograph from the first Bauhaus portfolio made at the moment when the school was still esoteric and strange, before it became the rationalised institution of design history. The composition is stark: cubic volumes and sharp verticalities rendered in dense, textured black against the luminous white of the paper. Working entirely in monochrome forces attention onto form and spatial relationship rather than colour which is