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PUBLICATIONS Publications in English with paintings by Gerard Wagner: Gerard Wagner Ernst Schuberth A Glance into Nature’s Workshop 8 colour plates. Philosophisch-Anthroposophisches Verlag. Dornach 1972
Gerard Wagner Theodor Willmann Animal Metamorphosis 25 colour plates. Philosophisch-Anthroposophisches Verlag. 1972
Elisabeth Koch Gerard Wagner The Individuality of Colour ( An instruction book for painting ) 142 colour illustrations. Rudolf Steiner Press. London 1980 (2nd English edition 2009)
Elisabeth Wagner Catalogue of the Gerard Wagner Exhibition at the Hermitage, St Petersburg 100 colour plates. Novikoff Verlag. St Petersburg 1997
Compiled and published by Caroline Chanter, 2002 About Gerard Wagner Contributions by Christian Hitsch, Gennady Bondarev, Gerard Wagner, Van James, Georg Nemes and Theodor Willmann. 1 colour plate An Article: From Six Decades of Colour Research An Introduction to Gerard Wagner’s Painting.
David Adams
Arriving in Dornach in 1926, Gerard Wagner discovered the painting school of Henni Geck and later applied for admission. A short but intensive period of study in this painting school established the direction for Wagner’s later work. Attentive practise of the specific colour sequences appropriate in building up the motifs of the “training sketches”, done by Rudolf Steiner, enabled Wagner, over many years, to acquire an exact feeling for the characteristic gestures, qualities, and tendencies toward movement of the individual colours and of their relationships with other colours. Once a colour sequence had been found to lead consistently to a particular motif, Wagner frequently undertook studies of how this motif metamorphosed when the same colour sequence was painted on a variety of different background colours, as a result of each colour responding to the background colour as well as to each of the other colours. Further he discovered that the painter can work on a series of paintings employing the same colour sequence simultaneously in each painting, perhaps only varying one colour slightly in each painting, to study how this will affect the succeeding interactions of all the other colours and, in the end, the form of the final motif. As a result of his long pursuit of the method he describes, Wagner finds confirmation of Steiner’s statements indicating that through reliance only on colour the usually quantitative elements of weight, measure, and number can be rediscovered by the artist as qualitative, non-material dimensions that affect the interactions of colours in painting. This new kind of encounter with the world of colour leads beyond the individuality of the artist and over into the formative activity of the natural world itself. Rudolf Steiner pointed the way to this through his indications regarding the characteristics of the lustre and image colours, and through the examples he provided in his sketches. It should also be mentioned that Wagner envisions practical uses of the new approach to painting in education and in therapy. He has himself also demonstrated how colour can be brought to bear at the same time functionally as well as artistically in architectural interiors. Gerard Wagner’s work was first exhibited (very modestly) in Dornach in the 1940’s during the war. He began painting with plant-based pigments in 1970, when they became available from the Plant Colour Laboratory in Dornach. He founded, along with the aid of his pupil and collaborator Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, a painting school in Dornach in 1964 which continues there today.
Publications in German: Pflanzenmetamorphose Tiermetamorphose Wandlungen des Elementarischen im Jahreslauf Dornröschen Die Kunst der Farbe Die Individualität der Farbe Anthroposophie und Malerei. Gespräche mit 17 Künstlern Immerwährender Tierkreiskalender Farben - Wege – Worte Katalog zur Ausstellung „Gerard Wagner“ in der Ermitage Sankt Petersburg Articles in German - Zur Arbeitsweise von Gerard Wagner - Metamorphosen von Gerard Wagner - Kunst als Forschungsweg - Aspekte der Metamorphose in den Kuppel-Motiven des Goetheanums http://www.thechristiancommunity.org/about.htm |
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