I discovered soon that teaching has the handicap of retrospection. And that I don’t believe in. So I started [at the w:Bauhaus in Dessau] instead a method of handling material with the material itself. So that was my main change. Whereas Itten before [Itten left the Bauhaus in 1923 and Albers followed him as art-teacher] had only spoken about the appearance, ‘matiere’ – (the French word) and I said I would turn from ‘matiere’ – the outside – to the inside, to the capacity of the material, before the appearance. And that changed the attitude basically I think.

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I discovered soon that teaching has the handicap of retrospection. And that I don’t believe in. So I started [at the w:Bauhaus in Dessau] instead a method of handling material with the material itself. So that was my main change. Whereas Itten before [Itten left the Bauhaus in 1923 and Albers followed him as art-teacher] had only spoken about the appearance, ‘matiere’ – (the French word) and I said I would turn from ‘matiere’ – the outside – to the inside, to the capacity of the material, before the appearance. And that changed the attitude basically I think.