# Edith Maryon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Maryon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Maryon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Maryon > Source revision: 1352372709 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British artist (1872–1924)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use British English|date=July 2012}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = | image = Edith Maryon.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = {{circa|1920}} | birth_name = Louisa Edith Church Maryon | birth_date = 9 February 1872 | birth_place = London, England | death_date = 2 May 1924 (aged 52) | death_place = [Dornach](/source/Dornach), Switzerland | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = ''[The Dance of Anitra](/source/The_Dance_of_Anitra)''; ''[In Memory of Theo Faiss](/source/In_Memory_of_Theo_Faiss)'' | style = Sculptor | movement = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = [Herbert Maryon](/source/Herbert_Maryon) (brother) | family = | awards = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | module = }} [[File:Dance of Anitra by Edith Maryon - Dreweatts 1.jpg|thumb|alt=Colour photograph of Edith Maryon's sculpture The Dance of Anitra|''[The Dance of Anitra](/source/The_Dance_of_Anitra)'']] '''Louisa Edith Church Maryon''' (9 February 1872 – 2 May 1924) was an English sculptor. Along with [Ita Wegman](/source/Ita_Wegman), she belonged to the innermost circle of founders of [anthroposophy](/source/anthroposophy) and those around [Rudolf Steiner](/source/Rudolf_Steiner). == Life and work == {{see also|Works of Edith Maryon}} 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](/source/Geneva). During the 1890s she studied sculpture in London at the Central School of Design, and from 1896 at the [Royal College of Arts](/source/Royal_College_of_Arts). One of her professors there, [Édouard Lantéri](/source/%C3%89douard_Lant%C3%A9ri), termed Maryon and fellow student [Benjamin Clemens](/source/Benjamin_Clemens) his best students. 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''.{{sfn|von Halle|Wilkes|2010}} Maryon met Rudolf Steiner in 1912 or 1913, and after the summer of 1914 she moved to [Dornach](/source/Dornach). She worked with Steiner on the construction of the [first Goetheanum](/source/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](/source/Lucifer) and [Ahriman](/source/Ahriman), representing opposing tendencies of expansion and contraction.''The Representative of Humanity Between Lucifer and Ahriman, The Wooden Model at the Goetheanum'', Judith von Halle, John Wilkes (2010) {{ISBN|978-1-85584-239-7}} from the German ''Die Holzplastik des Goetheanum'' (2008)[http://www.rudolfsteinerpress.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781855842397] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502235547/http://www.rudolfsteinerpress.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781855842397 |date=2 May 2014 }}Rudolf Steiner ''Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman'', lecture May 1915 [http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19150518p01.html] The sculpture was intended to present, in contrast to Michelangelo's [Last Judgment](/source/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)), Christ as mute and impersonal such that the beings that approach him must judge themselves.{{sfn|Steiner|1980|pp=294–295}}{{sfn|Steiner|2023|p=253}} At a foundation meeting held during Christmas 1923 Steiner nominated Maryon as leader of the Section for the Plastic Arts at the GoetheanumRudolf Steiner, ''Constitution of the School of Spiritual Science: Its arrangement in Sections'' 1964, republished 2013, p. 22. {{ISBN|978-1-85584-382-0}} (or Sculptural Arts)Record of Foundation meeting 1923, session of 28 December 10 a.m. {{ISBN|978-0-88010-193-6}} [http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA260/English/AP1990/19231228a01.html] (German ''Sektion für Bildende Künste'').Currently known as "fine arts" or "visual arts": Bildende,[https://www.goetheanum.org/Sektion-fuer-Bildende-Kuenste.393.0.html?&L=0.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427044631/https://www.goetheanum.org/Sektion-fuer-Bildende-Kuenste.393.0.html?&L=0. |date=27 April 2014 }} fine,[https://www.goetheanum.org/Startpage.45.0.html?&L=1.&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3429&cHash=fb3bd9a242602fa9ec1aded9ac54bdad]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} visual [https://www.goetheanum.org/Art-Section.393.0.html?&L=1.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427034513/https://www.goetheanum.org/Art-Section.393.0.html?&L=1. |date=27 April 2014 }} The following May, she died of [tuberculosis](/source/tuberculosis). == References == {{cite news | title = Camden School of Art and Science | newspaper = The Holloway & Hornsey Press | location = Holloway, London | department = Social and Otherwise | page = 5 | issue = 1507 | date = 13 December 1901 | url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004602/19011213/076/0005 | url-access = subscription }} {{cite web | title = Weckruf an unsere Zeit. Edith Maryon | date = 24 July 2019 | website = Goetheanum | publisher = [Anthroposophical Society](/source/Anthroposophical_Society) | url = https://goetheanum.ch/de/veranstaltungen/edith-maryon | access-date = 3 April 2026 | archive-date = 3 April 2026 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260403205626/https://goetheanum.ch/de/veranstaltungen/edith-maryon | url-status = live }} == Bibliography == * {{cite encyclopedia | last = Spielmann | first = Marion H. | author-link = Marion Spielmann | encyclopedia = [Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) | edition = [11th](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition) | entry = Modern British Sculpture | pages = 501–508 | date = 1911 | publisher = [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) | location = Cambridge | volume = XXIV | entry-url = https://archive.org/details/Encyclopaediabri24chisrich_201303/page/n531 }} * {{cite book | last = Steiner | first = Rudolf | author-link = Rudolf Steiner | editor1-last = Groddeck | editor1-first = Wolfram | title = Das Geheimnis des Todes: Wesen und Bedeutung Mitteleuropas und die europäischen Volksgeister | language = de | trans-title = The Mystery of Death: The Nature and Significance of Central Europe and the European Folk-Spirits | edition = 2nd | series = Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe | volume = 159/160 | date = 1980 | publisher = Rudolf Steiner Verlag | location = Dornach | isbn = 978-3-7274-1590-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/rudolf-steiner-ga-159 | name-list-style = amp }} :* Translated into English as {{cite book | last = Steiner | first = Rudolf | author-link = Rudolf Steiner | editor-last = Dietler | editor-first = Urs | translator-last = Blaxland de-Lange | translator-first = Simon | title = The Mystery of Death: The Nature and Significance of Central Europe and the European Folk-Spirits | series = Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner | volume = 159 | date = 2023 | publisher = Rudolf Steiner Press | location = London | isbn = 978-1-85584-608-1 }} :* Published online in part with translations as {{cite web | ref = none | title = The Mystery of Death: GA 159 | website = Rudolf Steiner Archive | publisher = Steiner Online Library | url = https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159 | access-date = 30 September 2025 }} {{free access}} * {{cite book | last1 = von Halle | first1 = Judith | last2 = Wilkes | first2 = John | translator1-last = Wehrle | translator1-first = Pauline | translator2-last = Wilkes | translator2-first = John | title = The Representative of Humanity: Between Lucifer and Ahriman | date = 2010 | publisher = Sophia Blade | location = Forest Row, East Sussex | isbn = 978-1-85584-239-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/representativeof0000hall | url-access = registration | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} == Further reading == * {{cite book | last = Biemond | first = Rembert | editor-last = von Plato | editor-first = Bodo | title = Anthroposophie im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Kulturimpuls in Biografischen Porträts | language = de | trans-title = Anthroposophy in the 20th Century: A Cultural Impulse in Biographical Portraits | date = 2003 | publisher = Verlag am Goetheanum | location = Dornach| pages = | chapter = Edith Maryon | isbn = 978-3-7235-1199-2 }} * {{cite web | last1 = Biemond | first1 = Rembert | last2 = Schnetzler | first2 = Barbara | title = Conversation – Edith Maryon | date = 10 May 2024 | website = Das Goetheanum | publisher = [Goetheanum](/source/Goetheanum) | url = https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/edith-maryon/ | access-date = 26 August 2025 | archive-date = 27 August 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250827025324/https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/edith-maryon/ | url-status = live | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} * {{cite book | editor1-last = Freeman | editor1-first = Arnold | editor1-link = Arnold Freeman | editor2-last = Waterman | editor2-first = Charles | title = Rudolf Steiner: Reflections by Some of his Pupils | date = 1958 | publisher = The Golden Blade | url = https://www.waldorflibrary.org/images/stories/Journal_Articles/GoldenBlade_1958.pdf | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} * {{cite journal | last = Kessler | first = Miriam | date = 2019–2020 | title = Edith Maryon: Eine Bildhauerin an der Seite Rudolf Steiners | language = de | trans-title = Edith Maryon: A sculptor at Rudolf Steiner's side | journal = Hinweis | pages = 5–12 | url = https://www.hinweis-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/hinweis-Dezenmber-f%C3%BCrs-Netz.pdf }} * {{cite book | last = Raab | first = Rex | title = Edith Maryon: Bildhauerin und Mitarbeiterin Rudolf Steiners | language = de | trans-title = Edith Maryon: Sculptor and collaborator of Rudolf Steiner | series = Pioniere der Anthroposophie | volume = XI | date = 1993 | publisher = Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum | location = Dornach | isbn = 978-3-7235-0648-6 }} * {{cite book | last = Selg | first = Peter | author-link = Peter Selg | title = Rudolf Steiners Toten-Gedenken | language = de | trans-title = Rudolf Steiner's Commemoration of the Dead | date = 2008 | publisher = Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts | location = Arlesheim | isbn = 978-3-9523425-2-7 }} :* Translated into English as {{cite book | last = Selg | first = Peter | author-link = Peter Selg | translator-last = Barton | translator-first = Matthew | title = Edith Maryon: Rudolf Steiner and the Sculpture of Christ in Dornach | date = 2022 | publisher = Temple Lodge Publishing | location = Forest Row | isbn = 978-1-912230-95-2 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Steiner | first1 = Rudolf | author1-link = Rudolf Steiner | last2 = Maryon | first2 = Edith | title = Rudolf Steiner / Edith Maryon: Briefwechsel. Briefe – Sprüche – Skizzen: 1912 – 1924 | series = Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe | volume = 263 | date = 1990 | publisher = Rudolf Steiner Verlag | location = Dornach | isbn = 978-3-7274-2631-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/rudolf-steiner-ga-263a | name-list-style = amp }} {{free access}} == External links == {{Commons category|Edith Maryon}} * {{Art UK bio}} * [http://d-nb.info/gnd/119006219 Literature by and about Edith Maryon] in the catalog of the [German National Library](/source/German_National_Library) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309034936/http://www.maryon.ch/projects/index.php Edith Maryon Foundation] {{Anthroposophy series}} {{New Woman (late 19th century)}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maryon, Edith}} Category:1872 births Category:1924 deaths Category:19th-century English sculptors Category:19th-century English women artists Category:20th-century English sculptors Category:20th-century English women artists Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art Category:Anthroposophists Category:Associates of the Royal College of Art Category:English women sculptors Category:Sculptors from London --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edith Maryon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Maryon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Maryon?action=history)). 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