Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner was born in Kraljevic, Croacia in 1861. He was an architect, philosopher and writer. His career as architect and builder was developed only from 1907 to 1925.

In 1879, Steiner came back to the Technische Hochschule of Vienna. After that, in 1883, he started to know Goethe’s works and texts and became an expert in that theme. Subsequently he published essays about Goethe and the view of the world that he achieved. In 1891, he finished his Philosophy doctorate and in 1902, he became part of the Theosophy Society where he established a German section of it.

Steiner created the Anthroposophy Society in 1913 and conceived, in this year too, the “Goetheanum” in honour of Goethe, in Dornach, Switzerland. He built series of supplementary buildings that were placed in the Goetheanum’s periphery, some of them are: the eurhythmic houses (1920), the Duldeck (1915) or the Jaager’s House (1921). Steiner worked the projects using modeling paste or clay mockups, where he blurred and transformed the simple volumes planned in a first stage by him, to explain the joint of the internal and external strengths.

In 1922, the Goetheanum  caught fire and was demolished and replaced by other one called “The Second Goetheanum” using a Steiner’s model of 1925, the year of his death. This building was finished posthumously in 1928.