) was an English sculptor. Along with Ita Wegman

Ita Wegman

Ita Wegman, MD is known as the co-founder of Anthroposophical Medicine with Rudolf Steiner. In 1921, she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic in Arlesheim, now known as the Ita Wegman Clinic...

, she belonged to the innermost circle of founders of anthroposophy

Anthroposophy

Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development...

 and those around Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner

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Life

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

Geneva

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. During the 1890s she studied sculpture in London

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 at the Central School of Design, and from 1896 at the Royal College of Arts.

Maryon met Rudolf Steiner in 1912/13 and after the summer of 1914 she moved to Dornach

Dornach

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. She worked with Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum, where she along with Steiner worked on sculpture The Representative of Humanity. She served as the head of the Section of Fine Arts at the Goetheanum. She died of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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Sources and literature

• Rex Raab, Edith Maryon, Sculptor and Associate of Rudolf Steiner, a biography [...]. Dornach: Philosophisch-anthroposophical Verlag am Goetheanum, 1993. ISBN 3-7235-0648-8
• 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

External links

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