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Gerard Wagner

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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.

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Author's Books

The Art of Colour and the Human Form

Seven Motif Sketches of Rudolf Steiner: Studies by Gerard Wagner

Rudolf Steiner and Gerard Wagner
Illustrated by Gerard Wagner
Edited by Peter Stebbing
Foreword by Peter Selg
Hardback
$50.00
Gerard Wagner
By (artist) Gerard Wagner
Afterword by Peter Stebbing
Hardback
$25.00

Four Large Watercolour Motifs of Rudolf Steiner

With a Lecture by Rudolf Steiner on Raphael

Hardback
$75.00