Topics: Architecture

First Goetheanum, Dornach/SO, Switzerland, Before the fire, n.y. (Photo: unknown)

19 December 2022 16:16

Impulse for cultural renewal > The First Goetheanum as a community building

A hundred years ago, in the New Year‘s Night 1922/1923, the First Goetheanum was destroyed in an arson attack. Events in and around the Goetheanum will be devoted to the commemoration of this loss. The building was intended as a response to the social crises of World War I and the needs of that time: a spiritual impulse for cultural renewal.

First Goetheanum (detail) (Photo: not determinable)

20 April 2022 10:49

Metamorphosis inspires cultural impulses > Video series: ‘The First Goetheanum as a synthesis of the arts’

The Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was intended as a building that would inspire cultural impulses. It was erected during the First World War by people from seventeen nations. One hundred years after its destruction by fire in 1922/1923, experts are discussing metamorphosis as a creative impulse in architecture, sculpture, painting and glass carving.