100 Years of Anthroposophic Art

From architectural models to clothes and toys

Untitled by Beppe Assenza Olomouc Museum of Art

The exhibition will give a broad overview of anthroposophic art in chronological order, from the groundbreaking ceremony of the first Goetheanum in 1913, to the present – with special emphasis on the political tension between east and west. 

AENIGMA | Sto let antroposofického umění Olomouc Museum of Art

Untitled by Fritz Schulte and Günther Oling, frame Olomouc Museum of Art

It will present important anthroposophic artists from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Czech lands and Poland.

Aenigma | A hundred years of anthroposophic art Olomouc Museum of Art

The concept of the exhibition pursues the anthroposophic tendency to Gesamtkunstwerk --

-- it will feature architectural models, artistic workmanship, designs, sculptures, graphics and paintings as well as clothing, toys and musical instruments.

Composition (1937) by Rudolf Michalik Olomouc Museum of Art

For the first time visitors will be offered a comprehensive insight into the extraordinary diversity of anthroposophic art and the art of living.

For the exhibition, an extensive catalogue will be issued in collaboration with the Arbor Vitae publishing house. It will contain rich visual and heuristic materials and professional texts.

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CONCEPTION | Reinhold J. Fäth, David Voda
CURATORS | Ivo Binder, Reinhold J. Fäth, David Voda
EXHIBITS | Albert Steffen-Stiftung, Dornach (CH), Biblioteca Enigmatica, Olomouc (CZ), Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Warszawa (PL), Gerard & Elisabeth Wagner-Verein, Arlesheim (CH). Karl König Archiv, Berlin (DE), Karl König Archive, Aberdeen (UK), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (DE), Kunstsammlung Goetheanum, Dornach (CH), Lvivska nacionalna galereja mystěctv im. B. H. Voznickoho, Lviv (UA), Muzeum umění Olomouc, Olomouc (CZ), Muzeum w Chrzanowie im. Ireny i Mieczysława Mazarakich, Chrzanow (PL), Národní knihovna Praha – Slovanská knihovna, Praha (CZ), Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Dornach (CH), Sammlung Fäth, Apolda (DE), Schreinerei Baukunst GmbH, Dornach (CH), Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk, Järna (S)
PRIVAT COLLECTIONS | Berlin (DE), Dornach (CH), Droždín, Olomouc, Praha, Samotišky, Senešnice, Ústí nad Labem (CZ)

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