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reproduced by means of photography, Steiner himself showed such photographs on the
screen on many occasions, and expressed his pleasure when he saw that the forms had come
out well. Several attempts were made to photograph the cupola paintings in Dornach. These
pictures were also shown by Steiner. To photograph the windows (against the light) seemed
hardly possible, but this was also attempted.
When Frau Assja Turgenieff was intending to reproduce the windows of the first
Goetheanum with the aid of sketches made for this purpose by Steiner, he advised her to
follow the technique he had used in the drawing of The Kabiri. The result of this was the
execution by Frau Turgenieff of the beautiful etchings which were later published in Die
Drei. 16
ENDNOTES
1. Teachers’ Conferences, July 3 and 12, 1923.
2. Teachers’ Conference, November 16, 1921.
3. Steiner himself demonstrated to the students how a sunrise and sunset should be painted. The
two originals, as well as his three color sketches—“Tree in Sunlight by a Waterfall,” “Trees at
Rest,” and “Trees in a Storm”—were later published by the Friedwart School. See also the seventh
of Steiner’s school sketches, the “Madonna.”
4. Teachers’ Conference, April 25, 1923.
5. Teachers’ Conference, February 5, 1924.
6. Teachers’ Conference, July 12, 1923.
7. Teachers’ Conference, April 28, 1922.
8. Teachers’ Conference, December 9, 1922.
9. Teachers’ Conference, September 11, 1921.
10. Teachers’ Conference, November 22, 1920.
11. Teachers’ Conference, January 23, 1923.
12. Teachers’ Conference, January 31, 1923.
13. Teachers’ Conferences, December 18 and July 31, 1923.
14. Teachers’ Conference, June 14, 1920.
15. This drawing can also be obtained separately.
16. Die Drei, volumes 5 and 6; also in Frau Turgenieff’s work, The Goetheanum Windows.