Wagner, Gerard

Gerard Wagner (1906 1999) was born in Germany and grew up in England. He began his vocation as an artist by learning from an English "plein air" painter before starting formal studies at the Royal College of Art in London. Beginning in 1926, he took up the challenge of a new direction in painting as initiated by Rudolf Steiner, which became the essence of his life s work for more than seventy years. Through his efforts to grasp the secrets of Steiner s training sketches for painters, Wagner succeeded in disclosing their metamorphic character and, from this, was able to develop a systematic app...