Rudolf Steiner was a pioneering reformer in the fields of education, agriculture, medicine, art, architecture, and spiritual science. After breaking with Theosophy he founded the new spiritual movement Anthroposophy, headquartered at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The inclusion of the “blackboard drawings” that he made during public lectures in Harald Szeemann’s Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk in 1983 marked the beginning of a wider understanding of Steiner’s work in the context of modern and contemporary art. The Vitra Design Museum organized the retrospective Rudolf Steiner, Alchemy of the Everyday in 2011, and 54 of Steiner’s blackboard drawings were included in the International Exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale.
