How did the appointment come about?

Additional information to the news of Christiane Haid’s appointment as head of Visual Arts in Anthroposophy Worldwide 10/2019.

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In Anthroposophy Worldwide 10/2019 the spokespersons for the Goetheanum Leadership announced the appointment of Christiane Haid as the future head, for a limited period from 2020 until the end of 2022, of the School of Spiritual Science’s Visual Arts Section. This decision was preceded by consultations conducted from January 2019 onward by a search group consisting of Willi Grass, Stefan Hasler, Claudia Schlürmann and Dino Wendtland (Christiane Haid was initially also a member of this group). The search group was given the task to propose to the Goetheanum Leadership (GL) a successor for Marianne Schubert before her withdrawal as head of Visual Arts in January 2020. Following conversations, some of them quite extensive, with 30 individuals, the search group had not been able to come up with a recommendation by the summer of 2019.

At their retreat in September the Goetheanum Leadership decided – as reported – to confer the leadership of the Visual Art Section for a limited period of three years to Christiane Haid, who is also head of Humanities. Christiane Haid is now in the process of forming a specialist team with representatives from the different art disciplines. So far, these include Pieter van der Ree und Yaike Dunselman for architecture and Rik ten Cate and Barbara Schnetzler for sculpture.

Towards the end of 2022 the Goetheanum Leadership will then make a decision regarding the Section leadership.

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