The Rudolf Steiner Archive

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Colour
GA 291

This volume is the most comprehensive compilation in English of Rudolf Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic creation. There are three parts to this lecture series, each part containing multiple lectures.

These lectures are part of the lecture-series, The Nature of Color. Published in German as, Das Wesen der Farben Translation Authorized by Harry Collison

Preface by Marie Steiner
Part I: The Nature of Colour
I. Colour-Experience May 06, 2024
II. The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours May 07, 2024
II. The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature May 08, 2024
Part II: Colour in Light and Darkness; Dimension, Number, Weight
I. Thought and Will as Light and Darkness December 05, 2023
II. The Connection of the Natural with the Moral-Psychical. Living in Light and Weight. December 10, 2023
II. Dimension, Number and Weight July 29, 2024
Part III: The Creative World of Colour
Introduction
I. The Creative World of Colour July 26, 2024
II. Artistic and Moral Experience January 01, 2024
III. Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World May 18, 2024
IV. The Hierarchies and the Nature of the Rainbow January 04, 2024