THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BAUHAUS (WEIMAR) AS THE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL IN THE CONTEXT OF ART EDUCATION IN UKRAINE. JOHANNES ITTEN’S PROPAEDEUTIC COURSE

In the article the author discusses the problem of Bauhas foundation, development and its work as a craft and industrial school in Weimar. The author tries to identify the key factors that contributed to the formation of the future center of the world design center. In the article the following topics structure of the school, the educational course, teachers, teaching methods and the goal set by the founders of the school have been considered. The author pays the main attention to the study of the role and importance of the author of the propaedeutic course and the first head of the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop Johannes Itten, later the author of the color theory and the theory of form, in the formation of the cornerstone ideas of the Bauhaus. The results of the work may be of interest not only to art historians, but also to participants and key-holders of development of the art education process of Ukraine.