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This excerpt is from an article about Rudolf Steiner's blackboard drawings. Steiner was a philosopher and teacher who used blackboard drawings to illustrate his lectures. He recorded his views on the world in books, but sometimes he needed to illustrate difficult concepts with drawings. After his earlier lectures, the drawings were erased and lost, but after the autumn of 1919, black paper was used to cover the blackboards so that the drawings could be saved. A selection of these drawings was first shown to the general public in 1992, and since then, exhibitions in Europe, America, and Japan have generated much interest in Steiner's works.
"Did Rudolf Steiner dream these things? Did he dream them as they once occurred, at the beginning of all time? They are, for sure, far more astonishing than the demiurges and serpents and bulls found in other cosmogonies." --Jorge Luis Borges Rudolf Steiner recorded his view of the world in numerous books. He also gave more than 5,000 lectures, in which he explained his ideas, using only minimal notes. When describing especially difficult subjects, Steiner frequently resorted to illustrating what he was saying with colored chalk on a large blackboard. After his earlier lectures, the drawings were erased and irretrievably lost. After the autumn of 1919, however, thick black paper was used to cover the blackboards so that the drawings could be rolled up and saved. The Trustees of Rudolf Steiner's Estate in Dornach, Switzerland, possess more than a thousand such drawings. A selection of these drawings was first shown to the general public in 1992, and since then, exhibitions in Europe, America, and Japan have generated much interest in Steiner's works. Contains 120 color plates.
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