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  2. Goetheanum - Wikipedia

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    The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [1] It includes two performance halls (1500 seats), gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrative spaces for the Anthroposophical Society ; neighboring buildings house the society's research and educational facilities.

  3. Eternal Silence (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death, [1] is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and features a bronze sculpture of a hooded and draped figure set upon, and backdropped by, black granite.

  4. Expressionist architecture - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Steiner designs second Goetheanum after first was destroyed by fire in 1922. Work commences 1924 and is completed in 1928. Michel de Klerk dies. 1924. Germany adopts the Dawes plan. Architects more inclined to produce low-cost housing than pursue utopian ideas about glass. Hugo Häring designs a farm complex. It uses expressive pitched ...

  5. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).

  6. Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia

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    The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in present-day Croatia. Steiner's father, Johann(es) Steiner (1829–1910), left a position as a gamekeeper [29] in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie (1834 Horn – 1918, Horn), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.

  7. Anthroposophy - Wikipedia

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    The Representative of Humanity, by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon. Anthroposophic painting, a style inspired by Rudolf Steiner, featured prominently in the first Goetheanum's cupola. The technique frequently begins by filling the surface to be painted with color, out of which forms are gradually developed, often images with symbolic-spiritual ...

  8. Rudolf Steiner House - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Steiner House is a Grade II listed building near Regent's Park, London which is the home of the Anthroposophical Society of Great Britain. [ 1 ] The building was designed by Montague Wheeler (1874-1937) in the " expressionist " style, and was constructed in stages between 1926 and 1937.

  9. Weimar culture - Wikipedia

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    Philosopher Rudolf Steiner, like Diefenbach, was a follower of Theosophy. Steiner had an enormous influence on the alternative health movement before his death in 1925 and far beyond. With Ita Wegman, he developed anthroposophical medicine.