Edith Maryon
Edith Maryon | |
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| Born | Louisa Edith Church Maryon 9 February 1872 London, England |
| Died | 2 May 1924 (aged 52) |
| Notable work | The Dance of Anitra; In Memory of Theo Faiss |
| Style | Sculptor |
| Relatives | Herbert Maryon (brother) |
Louisa Edith Church Maryon (9 February 1872, in London – 2 May 1924, in Dornach, Switzerland), better known as Edith Maryon, was an English sculptor. Along with Ita Wegman, she belonged to the innermost circle of founders of anthroposophy and those around Rudolf Steiner.
Life and work
[edit | edit source]Edith Maryon was the second of six children. Her parents were John Maryon Simeon and his wife Louisa Church who lived in London where she grew up. She attended a girls school and later went to a boarding school in the Swiss city of Geneva. During the 1890s she studied sculpture in London at the Central School of Design, and from 1896 at the Royal College of Arts. One of her professors there, Édouard Lantéri, termed Maryon and fellow student Benjamin Clemens his best students.[1] She exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her works of that period showed her leaning toward the subject of Christianity, such as a model of Michael, the relief The Seeker of Divine Wisdom and The Cross of Golgotha.[2]
Maryon met Rudolf Steiner in 1912/13 and after the summer of 1914 she moved to Dornach. She worked with Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum, and with him on the modelling and carving of the wooden sculpture The Representative of Humanity. Steiner designed the nine-metre high sculpture to be placed in the first Goetheanum. Now on permanent display at the second Goetheanum, it shows a central, free-standing Christ holding a balance between the beings of Lucifer and Ahriman, representing opposing tendencies of expansion and contraction.[3][4] The sculpture was intended to present, in contrast to Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Christ as mute and impersonal such that the beings that approach him must judge themselves.[5][6]
At a foundation meeting held during Christmas 1923 Steiner nominated Maryon as leader of the Section for the Plastic Arts at the Goetheanum[7] (or Sculptural Arts)[8] (German Sektion für Bildende Künste).[9] The following May, she died of tuberculosis.
References
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- ^ Rudolf Steiner Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman, lecture May, 1915 [2]
- ^ Steiner 1980, pp. 294–295.
- ^ Steiner 2023, p. 253.
- ^ Rudolf Steiner, Constitution of the School of Spiritual Science: Its arrangement in Sections 1964, republished 2013, p. 22. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Record of Foundation meeting 1923, session of 28 December, 10 a.m. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [3]
- ^ Currently known as "fine arts" or "visual arts": Bildende,[4] Archived 27 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine fine,[5][permanent dead link] visual [6] Archived 27 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
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Further reading
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External links
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataIdentifiers at line 24: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). artworks by or after Edith Maryon at the Art UK site
- Literature by and about Edith Maryon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edith Maryon Foundation
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