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

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Elisabeth Wagner-Koch Gerard Wagner

The Individuality of Colour

Contributions to a Methodical Schooling in Colour Experience

Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, Gerard Wagner, S.O. Prokofieff , P. Stebbing

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Rudolf Steiner Press
21 April 2025

Theory of art; Theosophy & Anthroposophy

‘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 colour 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 a training for painters, teachers, as well as complete beginners. These stages are based on recommendations Rudolf Steiner gave for the further development of an art of painting suitable for our time. The authors’ sources are: Steiner’s indications for the teaching of painting in the first Waldorf School, his colour and art lectures, and the sketches he made for painters. Together they form a self-contained system of exercises for a new art that is spiritually alive.

‘The path that Gerard and Elisabeth Wagner have set forth – which leads to experience of the spiritual basis of artistic activity and strengthens the human being’s creative potential – can serve as the means for a renewal of the art of painting out of the eternal and inexhaustible sources of the spirit.’ – Sergei O. Prokofieff

By: Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, Gerard Wagner
Foreword by: S.O. Prokofieff
Translated by: P. Stebbing
Imprint: Rudolf Steiner Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 215mm,
ISBN: 9781855846760
ISBN 10: 1855846764
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 21 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

GERARD WAGNER, born in Germany in 1906, grew up in England and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He went to Dornach, Switzerland, and in 1928 became a student of Henni Geck. On encountering Rudolf Steiner’s training sketches he discovered his life’s work. In metamorphosing them, he was able to develop a systematic approach to painting. Elisabeth Wagner-Koch became his first pupil in 1950, and together they founded a painting school at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. Gerard Wagner died in 1999, leaving a legacy of more than 4,000 images.