| The Green Snake: An Autobiography Contributor(s): Woloschin, Margarita (Translator), Stebbing, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0863157610 ISBN-13: 9780863157615 Publisher: Floris Books OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 432 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Told from the perspective of anthroposophic artist Margarita Woloschin, this is a first-hand account of her privileged upbringing in Russia and her subsequent life. In lyrical, evocative prose, she relates her vivid recollections of Moscow and rural Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as her meetings with the Russian intellectual elite, including Tolstoy, and the impressions they made upon her. Woloschin also describes her extensive travels throughout Europe and her marriage to the journalist-poet Max Voloshin. Woloschin recounts, too, her part in the introduction of anthroposophy into Russia, her involvement in the construction of the original Goetheanum in Dornach. The author's narrative is interspersed with her personal memories of Rudolf Steiner and the struggle for meaning in her turbulent life. Set against the background of the approaching Bolshevik Revolution, this haunting, historical memoir is witness to a fascinating and inspirational life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stebbing, Peter: - Peter Stebbing was born in Copenhagen in 1941 and attended Waldorf schools before studying art in Brighton and London. He moved to the U.S. and graduated from Cornell University with an M.F.A. in painting. Following his first teaching stint at the University of Kansas, Peter began teaching color courses at the City University of New York in 1970. Having begun investigations into Goethe's color theory, he visited the Gerard Wagner painting school in Dornach, Switzerland. There he began training with Wagner, who asked him to teach in the school. Peter later established a painting school at the Threefold Educational Foundation in Spring Valley, New York. For the past thirty years, he has taught introductory courses in Goethe's color theory with experiments in England, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S. Since 1992, Peter has been director of the Arteum Painting School in Dornach, Switzerland (www.arteum-malschule.de.vu), and has held a number of exhibitions of his work in Europe and North America.Woloschin, Margarita: - Margarita Woloschin (1882-1973) was born in Moscow, the first child of Wassily Michailovitch Sabaschnikov and Margarita Alexievna Andreyeva. She grew up in a very well-to-do family of diverse cultural interests and early on was determined to become a painter. She first met Rudolf Steiner in 1905 at a lecture in Zurich. After moving to St. Petersburg, she encountered the Russian symbolists and got to know the poet and painter Maximilian Voloschin, whom she married in 1906. She later accompanied Steiner on lecture tours and became a eurythmist, performing in Steiner's mystery dramas in 1913. When construction of the Goetheanum began, she was invited to help paint the interior. In 1924, she settled in Stuttgart, where she remained active in painting and various anthroposophic activities. |