Gerard Wagner

Photo: Van James

Gerard Wagner 1906 born in Wiesbaden, Germany 1912 family moved to England 1924-26 Studied painting at St Ives,Cornwall with John Park and at the Royal College of Art, London 1926 moved to Dornach,Switzerland 1928 studied painting with Henni Geck at the Goetheanum, Dornach From about 1930 independent painter, exhibitions world-wide (in 1997 at the Hermitage, St Petersburg,Russia) From about 1950 teaching activity in Switzerland, mostly at the Goetheanum, and in Germany and England 1999 died in Arlesheim,Switzerland For more information, see: www.gerardwagner.de

Gerard Wagner, born 1906, was the leading teacher of this school up to his death in 1999.

Through efforts to grasp the secrets of Rudolf Steiner’s training sketches for painters, Gerard Wagner succeeded in disclosing their metamorphic character and, out of this, was able to develop a systematic approach to painting.

Rudolf Steiner’s indications for an art of the future remained throughout his life the impulse for his research and artistic activity. The fruits of this research are his unique method of teaching and his archive of paintings both of which continue to be a source of inspiration for the school. Gerard Wagner’s archive of around 4’000 paintings is cared for by his wife Elisabeth Wagner.

Gerard Wagner show at the Palac Sztuki. Cracow 2006.