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Ever since the Rudolf Steiner s panel drawings were first exhibited in a contemporary art context in the summer of 1992 at the Galerie Monika Sprüth in Cologne, they went on tour as the transmitter of an anthroposophy for the future through the best known museums in the world. In addition to his paintings, drawings and sculptures, these panel pictures are clearly located at the junction between art and science, programmatically pointing to the key interrelationship between mankind and the cosmos. It was always Steiner s extraordinary way of seeing objects and non-objects that led to sustainable reform projects in such fields as agriculture, education and medicine.
This book examines for the first time Anthroposophist thought as reflected in contemporary art and to what extent its integral concepts and aesthetic ideas are realized in the visual arts. First illustrated book on the correlation between Steiner and modern art
Texts: Johannes Meinhardt, Markus Brüderlin
Selection of artists: Jan Albers, Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Helmut Federle, Manuel Graf, Katharina Grosse, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Carsten Nicolai, Giuseppe Penone,
Bernd Ribbeck
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (1861 1925), Austrian esoteric and philosopher, founded Anthroposophy, a Gnostic world view aligned with Christian theosophy, Rosicrucianism in addition
to idealistic philosophy and is numbered among the neo-mystic Unitarian concepts from the turn of the twentieth century.
Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 14 May to 3 October 2010; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 4 February to 22 May 2011
Links: www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.com
About the author
Markus Brüderlin, geboren 1958, studierte Kunstgeschichte, Kunstpädagogik und Germanistik. Er ist Kurator der Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel. Mit dem Thema Ornament und abstrakte Kunst beschäftigte er sich bereits in seiner Dissertation.
