Edith Maryon
Louisa Edith Church Maryon (9 February 1872, in
Life and work
Edith Maryon was the second of six children. Her parents were John Maryon Simeon and his wife Louisa Church who lived in London where she grew up. She attended a girls school and later went to a boarding school in the Swiss city of
Maryon met Rudolf Steiner in 1912/13 and after the summer of 1914 she moved to Dornach. She worked with Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum, and with him on the modelling and carving of the wooden sculpture The Representative of Humanity. Steiner designed the nine-metre high sculpture to be placed in the first Goetheanum. Now on permanent display at the second Goetheanum, it shows a central, free-standing Christ holding a balance between the beings of Lucifer and Ahriman, representing opposing tendencies of expansion and contraction.[3][4] The sculpture was intended to present, in contrast to Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Christ as mute and impersonal such that the beings that approach him must judge themselves.[5]
At a foundation meeting held during Christmas 1923 Steiner nominated Maryon as leader of the Section for the Plastic Arts at the Goetheanum[6][1] (or Sculptural Arts)[7] (German Sektion für Bildende Künste).[8] The following May, she died of tuberculosis.
References
- ^ a b Paull, John (2018) "A Portrait of Edith Maryon: Artist and Anthroposophist", Journal of Fine Arts, 1(2):8-15.
- ISBN 9781855842397
- ISBN 9781855842397 from the German Die Holzplastik des Goetheanum (2008)[1] Archived 2 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rudolf Steiner Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman, lecture May, 1915 [2]
- ^ Rudolf Steiner, The Etheric Body as a Reflexion of the Universe lecture, June 1915 [3]
- ISBN 9781855843820
- ISBN 0880101938 [4]
- ^ Currently known as "fine arts" or "visual arts": Bildende,[5] fine,[6] visual [7]
Further reading
- Rembert Biemond, Edith Maryon, in Anthroposophy in the 20th Century: e. Kulturimpuls in biographical portraits. Edited by Bodo von Plato. Dornach: Verlag am Goetheanum, 2003. ISBN 3-7235-1199-6
- Freeman, Arnold & Waterman, Charles, eds. (1958). Rudolf Steiner: Reflections by Some of his Pupils (PDF). The Golden Blade.
- Rex Raab, Edith Maryon, Sculptor and Associate of Rudolf Steiner, a biography [...]. Dornach: Philosophisch-anthroposophical Verlag am Goetheanum, 1993. ISBN 3-7235-0648-8
- ISBN 978-1-912230-95-2.
- ISBN 3-7274-2631-4.
External links
- 1 artwork by or after Edith Maryon at the Art UK site
- Literature by and about Edith Maryon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edith Maryon Foundation