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Paull, John. "Dornach: In the Footsteps of Rudolf Steiner." Studies in Art and Architecture 2, no. 4 (2023): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.56397/SAA.2023.12.01.
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When the New Age philosopher Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) arrived at the Dornach hill, a short tram ride from Basel, Switzerland, it offered virtually a tabula rasa for his creative genius. Over the next little more than a decade (beginning 1913), Steiner populated this landscape with amultitude of new buildings in his unique organic architecture style. Having settled on Dornach as the site for his Anthroposophy headquarters with its centrepiece structure, the Goetheanum (the name came later), a colony of adherents, devotees, seekers, disciples, artists and artisans were drawn to Dornach. The integrity of the precinct has been maintained for a century and a visitor treading the hill will be in the footsteps of Rudolf Steiner and seeing his Anthropop colony much as he witnessed it in his own time. The buildings of the precinct range from the grand (the Goetheanum), the bold (Haus Duldeck), the curvaceous (the Glass House), the quaint (Haus Vreede), the ugly (Haus de Jaager), the utilitarian (the Schrenerei), the basic (the Atelier), the fanciful (Transformatorenhaus), the phallic (Heizhaus), and the monastic (Eurythmiehaus). Many tastes (and budgets) were catered for as Rudolf Steiner explored and invented his organic architectural style. Nearly a century after his death there are now more than 180 Anthropop buildings within the greater Goetheanum precinct,including the nearby villages of Dornach and Arlesheim. The present paper presents 21 views of the greater Goetheanum precinct. The building start dates are specified. Many of the buildings were designedby Rudolf Steiner (those areasterisked).
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Paull, John. "Dornach: In the Footsteps of Rudolf Steiner." Studies in Art and Architecture 2, no. 4 (2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.56397/saa.2023.12.01.
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When the New Age philosopher Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) arrived at the Dornach hill, a short tram ride from Basel, Switzerland, it offered virtually a tabula rasa for his creative genius. Over the next little more than a decade (beginning 1913), Steiner populated this landscape with a multitude of new buildings in his unique organic architecture style. Having settled on Dornach as the site for his Anthroposophy headquarters with its centrepiece structure, the Goetheanum (the name came later), a colony of adherents, devotees, seekers, disciples, artists and artisans were drawn to Dornach. The integrity of the precinct has been maintained for a century and a visitor treading the hill will be in the footsteps of Rudolf Steiner and seeing his Anthropop colony much as he witnessed it in his own time. The buildings of the precinct range from the grand (the Goetheanum), the bold (Haus Duldeck), the curvaceous (the Glass House), the quaint (Haus Vreede), the ugly (Haus de Jaager), the utilitarian (the Schrenerei), the basic (the Atelier), the fanciful (Transformatorenhaus), the phallic (Heizhaus), and the monastic (Eurythmiehaus). Many tastes (and budgets) were catered for as Rudolf Steiner explored and invented his organic architectural style. Nearly a century after his death there are now more than 180 Anthropop buildings within the greater Goetheanum precinct, including the nearby villages of Dornach and Arlesheim. The present paper presents 21 views of the greater Goetheanum precinct. The building start dates are specified. Many of the buildings were designed by Rudolf Steiner (those are asterisked).
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Paull, John. "Goetheanum II: Masterpiece of Organic Architecture by Rudolf Steiner." European Journal of Architecture and Urban Planning 1, no. 4 (2022): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejarch.2022.1.4.9.
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The Goetheanum is one of the masterpieces of Twentieth Century architecture. The present building is the second iteration of Dr Rudolf Steiner’s ideas of organic architecture for the site on a hill overlooking the Swiss village of Dornach. The Goetheanum was intended as a theatre and the global headquarters of the Anthroposophical Society. Goetheanum I was a quaint all timber structure, opened on 26 September 1920. In 1921, Rudolf Steiner considered that a rebuild would be quite different. On 31 December 1922, Goetheanum I was destroyed by fire. By July 1923, funds were guaranteed for a new build. Shortly after the Christmas Conference of 1923, Rudolf Steiner presented a 1:100 scale clay model of Goetheanum II. In June 1924, the building application was submitted, and in November approved. Site work began in Rudolf Steiner's lifetime, but he died on 30 March 1925. On 29 September 1928, Goetheanum II was officially opened with plays, lectures and Eurythmy performances. This was a building, unlike any other, a grand sculpture in reinforced concrete. The furbishing of the interior proceeded over the following decades. The present paper relates the story of Goetheanum II, citing contemporary sources and illustrated with historical and present-day images.
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Paull, John. "Australia's original Demeter Farm (1934-1954)." Journal of Biodynamics Tasmania 123, September (2017): 16–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5717100.
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Two members of Rudolf Steiner’s Experimental Circle were the first to establish a Demeter Farm in Australia. In 1934 Ileen Macpherson (1898-1984) and Ernesto Genoni (1885-1964) founded their ‘Demeter Biological Farm’ on the Princes Highway in Dandenong, Victoria. They were guided by Steiner’s book of his Agriculture Course (1924). They managed their 40 acre farm using biodynamic (BD) practices for the next two decades. Ernesto first met Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, in 1920. He spent 1924 studying with Steiner at the Goetheanum. In that year, he learned German, experimented with painting in the Anthroposophic style, and he was accepted into Steiner’s First Class. This was the year of Steiner’s Agriculture Course and Steiner’s final year of public life.
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Paull, John. "Ernesto Genoni: Australia's pioneer of biodynamic agriculture." Journal of Organics 1, no. 1 (2014): 57–81. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5211212.
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Ernesto Genoni (1885-1975) pioneered biodynamic agriculture in Australia. In 1928 he was the first of (ultimately) twelve Australians to join Rudolf Steiner’s Experimental Circle of Anthroposophical Farmers and Gardeners (ECAFG) which was based at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. Ernesto trained as an artist for five years at Milan’s prestigious Brera Academy. He visited his brothers in Australia, broad-acre immigrant farmers in Western Australia, in 1912 and 1914 and during these visits he worked on their, and other’s, farms. In 1916 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and served as a stretcher bearer on the battlefields of the Somme, France, before being conscripted into the Italian Army and serving jail-time in Italy as a draft resister and conscientious objector. Ernesto joined the Anthroposophical Society in Milan in 1919. He first met Rudolf Steiner in 1920 at the Goetheanum, the Anthroposophy headquarters in Switzerland. Ernesto left the Goetheanum in 1924 when Steiner retired from public life. He migrated to Australia in 1926 with aspirations for establishing a career as an artist in Australia. Instead, having arrived in Australia, he was again drawn into farm management and agricultural work. Ernesto was a champion for biodynamic agriculture, Anthroposophy, and the Austrian New Age philosopher, Rudolf Steiner - causes to which he devoted the rest of his life. In 1928 he initiated the first Anthroposophy meetings in Melbourne. In 1930 Ernesto made a grand tour of biodynamic enterprises in Europe and met the leading biodynamics advocates and practitioners of the day in Germany, Switzerland and England, including Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Erika Riese, Ernst Stegemann, and Carl Mirbt. In 1935 Ernesto and his partner, Ileen Macpherson, who was also an anthroposophist and a member of the ECAFG, began their biodynamic farm called Demeter Biological Farm in Dandenong, Victoria. Ernesto was a founder of the Anthroposophical Society Victoria Michael Group in 1932, and he became its leader in 1962.
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Adams, David. "Rudolf Steiner's First Goetheanum as an Illustration of Organic Functionalism." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 51, no. 2 (1992): 182–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990714.
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Austrian designer Rudolf Steiner intended his first Goetheanum building in Dornach, Switzerland (1913-1922), among other purposes, to be a dramatic illustration of the principles of a new style of architecture, simultaneously organic and functional. Its unusual forms in carved wood and reinforced concrete, its watercolor murals, and its engraved colored-glass windows were also to be a visual introduction to the metaphysical ideas of Steiner's anthroposophy. The central dynamic of the building was the intersection of its two domes of different sizes, intended by Steiner to express the union of spirit and matter through his treatment of the functions of stage and auditorium. The contrast between the two domed spaces was supported in great detail throughout the interior. Steiner applied formative principles of the natural world to building designs, attempting to achieve an organism-like relation between part and whole, a harmonious adaptation of building to site, and an organic formal quality sympathetic to the human observer. In particular, he employed the principle of metamorphosis in the abstract forms of the building's ornamentation and ground plan, relating this principle to Goethe's studies of biological morphology. He created forms and spaces that not only fulfilled but also directly imaged their functions, including their relationship to their human users. He set forth his new architectural approach within the context of an extensively enunciated architectural theory, whose primary thrust was the encouragement of a clear adaptation of the designs of buildings to a holistically conceived human nature. He pioneered new techniques and styles, which, along with his lectures and writings, have influenced a number of significant artists and architects of the twentieth century.
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Paull, John. "The Rachel Carson Letters and the Making of Silent Spring." SAGE Open July - September (July 1, 2013): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244013494861.
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Environment, conservation, green, and kindred movements look back to Rachel Carson’s 1962 book <em>Silent Spring </em>as a milestone. The impact of the book, including on government, industry, and civil society, was immediate and substantial, and has been extensively described; however, the provenance of the book has been less thoroughly examined. Using Carson’s personal correspondence, this paper reveals that the primary source for Carson’s book was the extensive evidence and contacts compiled by two biodynamic farmers, Marjorie Spock and Mary T. Richards, of Long Island, New York. Their evidence was compiled for a suite of legal actions (1957-1960) against the U.S. Government and that contested the aerial spraying of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). During Rudolf Steiner’s lifetime, Spock and Richards both studied at Steiner’s Goetheanum, the headquarters of Anthroposophy, located in Dornach, Switzerland. Spock and Richards were prominent U.S. anthroposophists, and established a biodynamic farm under the tutelage of the leading biodynamics exponent of the time, Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. When their property was under threat from a government program of DDT spraying, they brought their case, eventually lost it, in the process spent US$100,000, and compiled the evidence that they then shared with Carson, who used it, and their extensive contacts and the trial transcripts, as the primary input for <em>Silent Spring</em>. Carson attributed to Spock, Richards, and Pfeiffer, no credit whatsoever in her book. As a consequence, the organics movement has not received the recognition, that is its due, as the primary impulse for <em>Silent Spring</em>, and it is, itself, unaware of this provenance
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Garth, John Turbott. "The Emergence of the Biodynamic Movement in New Zealand: 1930-1960s." Journal of Organics 6, no. 1 (2019): 23–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5400282.
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The practice of biodynamic agriculture dates from 1930 in New Zealand. The contribution of some of New Zealand’s biodynamics pioneers are related in this paper, including Bernard Crompton-Smith, George Winkfield, James Coe, and George Bacchus. New Zealand’s biodynamics pioneers relied on copies of Rudolf Steiner’s <em>Agriculture Course</em> received from Europe and on extensive correspondence with like minded individuals including Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and Guenther Wachsmuth of the Natural Science Section of the Goetheanum, at Dornach, Switzerland. The use of the biodynamic preparations dates in New Zealand from 1931. George Bacchus travelled to Germany and Britain (1934-1935) to gain practical experience of biodynamics and carried his knowledge back to New Zealand. Bacchus travelled again to Britain (1937-1947) before once again returning to New Zealand. The Rudolf Steiner Biological Dynamic Association for Soil and Crop Improvement was founded in New Zealand 1939. The name was soon changed to the Bio-Dynamic Association in New Zealand, and then in 1950 to the Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association in New Zealand. A biodynamics conference at Te Aroha in May 1945 was attended by 80 members of the Bio-Dynamic Association in New Zealand. The Association at that time had around 200 members. Post war, the membership of the Association fell to 50 or 60 members in the 1950s. Fresh interest was generated and new members joined in the 1960s. The adoption of the European biodynamics ‘Demeter’ trademark to differentiate biodynamic produce in the marketplace was proposed in 1964 and this proposal was finally implemented in 1984 in New Zealand. The biodynamics project continues and the association is incorporated as the ‘Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association in NZ’.
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Paull, John. "Rudolf Steiner: From Theosophy to Anthroposophy (1902-1913)." European Journal of Theology and Philosophy 2, no. 5 (2022): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/theology.2022.2.5.74.
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The Theosophical Society, founded in New York in 1875, was, at the turn of the Twentieth Century, a global phenomenon with 100,000 members. New Age philosopher Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was appointed as the first Secretary General of the German Section of the Theosophical Society on 19 October 1902. The Theosophical Society offered Rudolf Steiner a platform, a ready-made audience, infrastructure, and the insider experience of the world’s leading New Age spiritual society. The success of the Theosophical Society demonstrated that there was a public appetite to hear about reincarnation, karma, maya, kamaloca, and other Eastern and alternative spiritual ideas. The Theosophical Society provided Rudolf Steiner a capable, multilingual, and determined personal assistant, Marie von Sivers (1867-1948). For Rudolf Steiner the Theosophical Society offered the perfect training ground for what would be, a decade later, his life’s work, the Anthroposophical Society. Rudolf Steiner grew the membership of the German Section of the Theosophical Society from 377 in 1905 to 3,702 in 1913. He earned cash from ticketing of his lectures and his Mystery plays, and from book sales of his personal publishing house, ‘Philosophisch-Theosophischer Verlag’. Another enterprise, the ‘Johannes-Bau-Verein’ (Johannes Building Association) was founded in 1911, independent of the Theosophical Society, to build a theatre in Munich to present Rudolf Steiner's plays. The building application was rejected by the Munich municipal authorities in 1912. The resistance to a build in Munich, provided impetus for the move to build in Dornach, Switzerland. The Anthroposophical Society was founded 28 December 1912 in Cologne, Germany. Most of the members of the German Section of the Theosophical Society members followed Rudolf Steiner into the Anthroposophical Society. The Theosophical Society expelled Rudolf Steiner from the Theosophical Society on 7 March 1913. The foundation stone for the Goetheanum (then still called the ‘Johannesbau’) was laid 20 September 1913. The Theosophical Society had served as the ideal prototype and springboard for founding and growing the Anthroposophical Society.
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Paull, John, and Tord Tutturen. "Nordic Pioneers of Biodynamic and Organic Agriculture." European Journal of Development Studies 4, no. 1 (2024): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejdevelop.2024.4.1.336.
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Fifty Nordic pioneers of biodynamic (BD) agriculture, and hence of organic agriculture, are identified. These individuals, from Norway (n = 23), Sweden (n = 12), Denmark (n = 10), and Finland (n = 5), joined the Experimental Circle of Anthroposophical Farmers and Gardeners in the years 1924–1946. These pioneers comprised both men (n = 35) and women (n = 14), with one member of undetermined gender. The Experimental Circle was headquartered at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. One of these pioneers (Anna Wager-Gunnarson) attended the foundational course of biodynamic and organic agriculture, presented by Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), in eight lectures at Koberwitz (now Kobierzyce, Poland) in June 1924. The core element of the course was that agriculture was properly a biological rather than a chemical pursuit. The ‘Agriculture Course’ was subsequently issued (in German from 1926) as a subscriber-only published book to members (of the Anthroposophical Society) who joined the Experimental Circle. Each Circle member signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and committed to testing the ideas of the course. A milestone was the 1938 book by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, ‘Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening,’ which arguably released Experimental Circle members from their NDA. Nordic members joined progressively over the two decades following the Koberwitz course, with new memberships peaking in 1932 (n = 7), and continuing through the years of World War II (WWII). Biodynamic agriculture is still practiced in the Nordic countries of these pioneers, with Denmark presently accounting for 2,998 hectares, Sweden 873 ha, Norway 548 ha, and Finland 384 ha. The Nordic countries have developed strong organic sectors, with Sweden accounting for 610,543 ha of certified organic agriculture (which is 20.2% of its agricultural land), Finland 315,112 ha (14.4%), Denmark 299,998 (11.4%), and Norway 45,181 ha (4.6%). Iceland has no identified BD pioneers, presently no BD hectares, and 6,440 ha of organic agriculture (0.4% of total agriculture land). The identification of the 50 Nordic pioneers of the present paper provides recognition as early-adopters and invites further research on their life, legacy, and role in founding BD and organic agriculture in the region.
Books on the topic "Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland)"
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Axel, Menges, and Dix Thomas, eds. Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum, Dornach. Ernst & Sohn, 1991.
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International IFgene Conference on Presuppositions in Science and Expectations in Society (1st 1996 Dornach, Switzerland). The future of DNA: Proceedings of an International IFgene Conference on Presuppositions in Science and Expectations in Society, held at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2nd-5th October 1996. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
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Die Lebensbedingungen der Anthroposophie heute: Ziele und Aufgaben der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft und der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft. Verlag am Goetheanum, 2007.
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E. T. Lammerts van Bueren and J. Wirz. Future of DNA: Proceedings of an International If Gene Conference on Presuppositions in Science and Expectations in Society Held at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2nd - 5th October 1996. Springer, 2012.
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E. T. Lammerts van Bueren and J. Wirz. Future of DNA: Proceedings of an International If Gene Conference on Presuppositions in Science and Expectations in Society Held at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2nd - 5th October 1996. Springer, 2012.
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