The Individuality of Colour: Contributions to a Methodical Schooling in Colour Experience - Hardcover

Wagoner-koch, Elisabeth; Wagner, Gerard

9781855842267: The Individuality of Colour: Contributions to a Methodical Schooling in Colour Experience

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855842262 ISBN 13: 9781855842267

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr, 2010

“What is postulated here is not the dogmatic laying down of a way of working. Rather the aim is to make evident one possible means of access to an experience of the color world ... and guide actual practice to Rudolf Steiner’s sketch motifs―to their eminent educational power―for we recognize in them a path that can become of great significance to the developing human soul.” (from the introduction)

This unique workbook describes the early stages of training for painters, teachers, as well as for beginners. The stages are based on recommendations by Rudolf Steiner for the development of a renewed art of painting for our time. The book draws on Steiner’s indications for teaching painting in the first Waldorf school, his lectures on color and art, and sketches he made for painters. Together, they form a self-contained system of exercises for a new, spiritually alive art.

(Photo: The authors, Gerard Wagner and Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, in the garden of their house in Dornach, Switzerland.)

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About the Author:

Elisabeth Wagner-Koch became the first student of Gerard Wagner in 1950. Together they founded a painting school at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. In addition to her book on color with Gerard Wagner, Elisabeth illustrated an edition of the Grimms' fairy tale, Schneewittchen (Snow White).

Gerard Wagner (1906–1999) was born in Germany and grew up in England. He began his vocation as an artist by learning from an English plein air painter before starting formal studies at the Royal College of Art in London. Beginning in 1926, he took up the challenge of a new direction in painting as initiated by Rudolf Steiner, which became the essence of his life’s work for more than seventy years. Through his efforts to grasp the secrets of Steiner’s training sketches for painters, Wagner succeeded in disclosing their metamorphic character and, from this, was able to develop a systematic approach to painting. Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, whom Gerard later married, became his first student in 1950, and together they established The Painting School at the Goetheanum, of which he remained the principle teacher until his death in Arlesheim,Switzerland. Rudolf Steiner’s indications for an art of the future remained the impulse for Wagner’s research and artistic activity throughout his life. The fruits of his research are a unique method of teaching and his archive of paintings, which continue to be a source of inspiration for the school. Wagner’s wife Elisabeth cares for the archive of about 4,000 paintings. Visit the Painting School at the Goetheanum online.

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