Kindled out of cosmic spirit” Rudolf Steiner – Life and Work 1861-1925

28 April 2025

To mark the centenary of Rudolf Steiner’s death, a major exhibition (Aus des Kosmos Geist entzünden. Rudolf Steiner – Leben und Werk 1861-1925) of his life and work, including artworks, photographs, documents, and works of art, will be on display at the Goetheanum from 28 March 2025 to 1 January 2026. The exhibition is in German and English.

In addition to the exhibition located in the main building of the Goetheanum, the surrounding buildings designed by Rudolf Steiner as well as other exhibition spaces on the site can be visited.

The exhibition reveals how Steiner’s biography is interwoven with his spiritual scientific, artistic, social, and other works. The motif that runs through the presentation is how Rudolf Steiner experienced and shaped the relationship between the sensory-material and spiritual worlds in the course of his biography.

Important stages in this trajectory include the editing of Goethe’s scientific writings and his own epistemological, theosophical, and anthroposophical works. His artistic impulse is significant, as are the new approaches he developed in education, architecture, medicine, agriculture, banking, and social life.

The interaction between Steiner’s intentions, the external influences of his time, and his destiny, as well as the lively mesh of his social relationships, friendships, and the questions posed to him, reveal a life that began at a small railway station in what is now Croatia and that has unfolded a worldwide impact to this day.

(Source and further information: Goetheanum)

Impressions of the exhibition