With the exhibition Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart take up a phenomenon that has attracted little attention in the past, but which
is among the most exciting chapters in modern art and intellectual history. While Vassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Joseph Beuys already regularly drew impulses for their work from Rudolf
Steiner's universal world of ideas, this link has received a new topicality at the start of the twenty-first century as a result of the increasing interest contemporary artists have been
showing in the »Rudolf Steiner Cosmos.
The catalog presents these diverse artistic positions in numerous color illustrations, expertly annotated with essays on the history of art and science. Against this background, philosophers,
university founders, scientists and business managers discuss the question: »Where is spirit today?« This richly illustrated book is the standard work and foundation for all future treatment of
this subject matter.
Parallel to the publication »Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art«, the catalog of the touring exhibition »Rudolf Steiner - The Alchemy of the Everyday« will be published by the Vitra Design
Museum, Well am Rhein 2010.
