The Spiritual in Art – The AENIGMA Artists Group – A Hilma af Klint Update

AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY DR. REINHOLD J. FATH, IN PERSON AT RUDOLF STEINER BRANCH CHICAGO

This lecture introduces artists of the Aenigma group, shows many pictures of exciting, partly still unpublished works of art and talks about the lasting effect of the anthroposophical art impulse on art and design of the 20th century until today, which received renewed attention on the occasion of the discovery and appreciation of the work of the painter Hilma af Klint.

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“If we look back to the origins and development of painting within the anthroposophical movement, it is impossible to ignore a group of artists that gathered together to present their works to the public through exhibitions under the name: Aenigma Artists Group. The group’s first exhibition took place in Munich in 1918.

On this occasion, Rudolf Steiner gave a lecture, The Transcendental and Artistic Creativity. So many people attended the lecture that Rudolf Steiner had to give his talk twice. Every newspaper in Munich discussed the event, each according to its own fashion.” ~ Maria Strakosch-Giesler, Das Goetheanum, 1943

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Dr. Reinhold J. Fath taught at the Universities of Applied Sciences HKS Ottersberg and FH Kunst Arnstadt in Germany. He has a PhD in Art Sciences University of Konstanz. Part of his research focuses on the effects of visual arts and interior design on the human psyche from a spiritual point of view. He is the author of books and articles on anthroposophical art, art therapy, and design. Reinhold was a member of the executive board of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany and is a member of the Visual Art Section at the Goetheanum.

The List of His Literature:
– Rudolf Steiner Design – Spiritueller Funktionalismus (2005)
– Designtherapie: Die therapeutische Dimension von Architektur und Design (2007)
– Dornach Design – Möbelbaukunst 1911-2011 (2011)

Co-editor of: Aenigma – One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art (2015)
His catalogue and book contributions are in:
– Rudolf Steiner and the Alchemy of the Everyday (Vitra Design Museum, 2010)
– Beauty as the Imprint of the Cosmos (Ritman Library Amsterdam, 2013)
– Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds – Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (edited by Laura Scuriatti, 2019).