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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.[1]

Life and work

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. 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]

At a foundation meeting held during Christmas 1923 Steiner nominated Maryon as leader of the Section for the Plastic Arts at the Goetheanum[6][1] (or Sculptural Arts)[7] (German Sektion für Bildende Künste).[8] The following May, she died of tuberculosis.

References

Further reading

• Rembert Biemond, Edith Maryon, in Anthroposophy in the 20th Century: e. Kulturimpuls in biographical portraits. Edited by Bodo von Plato. Dornach: Verlag am Goetheanum, 2003. ISBN 3-7235-1199-6
• Freeman, Arnold & Waterman, Charles, eds. (1958). Rudolf Steiner: Reflections by Some of his Pupils (PDF). The Golden Blade.
• Rex Raab, Edith Maryon, Sculptor and Associate of Rudolf Steiner, a biography [...]. Dornach: Philosophisch-anthroposophical Verlag am Goetheanum, 1993. ISBN 3-7235-0648-8
• Steiner, Rudolf & Maryon, Edith (1990). Rudolf Steiner / Edith Maryon: Briefwechsel. Briefe – Sprüche – Skizzen: 1912 – 1924. Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe. Vol. 263. Dornach: Rudolf Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3-7274-2631-4.

External links

• Literature by and about Edith Maryon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Edith Maryon Foundation

На других языках

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[de] Edith Maryon

Edith Louisa Maryon (* 9. Februar 1872 in London; † 2. Mai 1924 in Dornach/Schweiz) war eine englische Bildhauerin. Sie gehörte, neben Marie von Sivers und Ita Wegman, zum innersten Kreis um den Begründer der Anthroposophie, Rudolf Steiner.

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- [en] Edith Maryon

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[fr] Edith Maryon

Edith Louise Maryon (née à Londres le 9 février 1872, décédée à Dornach le 1er mai 1924) est une peintre portraitiste et sculpteur anglaise.

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[it] Edith Maryon

Louisa Edith Church Maryon, conosciuta semplicemente come Edith Maryon (Londra, 9 febbraio 1872 – Dornach, 2 maggio 1924) è stata una scultrice ed esoterista inglese.

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