Blackboard Drawings 1919-1924

by Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner recorded his view of the world in many books, but also in over 5,000 lectures.

Here, he explained his ideas on a wide range of subjects: education, science, the social question, art, architecture, medicine and agriculture.

Steiner spoke freely, using only minimal notes. But when explaining conceptually difficult subject matter he frequently resorted to illustrating what he was saying with coloured chalks on a large blackboard. After the lecture the drawings were rubbed out and thus irretrievably lost - but not in every case. From the autumn of 1919 onwards, thick black paper was used to cover the blackboards so that the drawings could be rolled up and stored.

The trustees of Rudolf Steiner’s estate in Dornach, Switzerland, possess over 1,000 of these drawings, which visually document Steiner’s view of the world and his creative way of thinking. A selection of the drawings was first shown to a wider public in 1992. Since then, numerous exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan have generated great interest in Rudolf Steiner’s work.

Blackboard Drawings 1919-1924 - Rudolf Steiner (9781855841529) 40.00