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The Goetheanum 1913-2013
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Rudolf Steiner with a model of the new building. Construction helped create a real community out of Rudolf Steiner’s students and admirers.
The foundation was laid in 1913. Workers gathered from all over Europe...
floor plan
cross section
early construction
Aerial View
The front entrance
View on the upper outdoor area
A view in the Swiss landscape
Three watercolors by Hermann Linde: autumn...
...spring...
...and an imagination of a dramatic production on the stage. Linde also worked on the paintings of the cupolas; he died shortly after the Goetheanum burned at the end of 1922, “of a broken heart.”
Nearby buildings have unique styles... Haus Duldeck
Glashaus
Atelier
The heating building on the right
Devastation after the arson of the first building, which was made largely out of many kinds of wood, with a slate roof and concrete foundation.
The new Goetheanum, constructed of flowing concrete forms in the late 1920s, in warm evening and cool daytime light (photos by Carla Beebe Comey).
Floor plan of the second Goetheanum
Second Goetheanum cross section
Below, internal spaces of the Second Goetheanum with unique plant-based pigments and flowing forms (photos by John Beck)
At sunset
