Liane Collot d'Herbois

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Liane Collot d'Herbois around 1993

Liane Collot d'Herbois (born December 17, 1907 in Camelford, south-west England , † September 17, 1999 in Driebergen , Netherlands ) was an English painter, teacher and painting therapist . She founded the painting method according to "light, darkness and color", in which she further developed Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research into a theory of colors that shows the relationships between the human being and the development of color through the forces of darkness and light and for doctors and makes it accessible to therapists.

Life

Liane Collot d'Herbois was born on December 17, 1907 in Camelford, Cornwall near Tintagel, the only child to a Scottish mother and a French father. For the first twelve years she lived in Tintagel, where she was often in the great outdoors. She started painting at an early age and sold her first pictures at the age of eleven. When she was still at school, she dealt with Plato's ideas .

She studied at the Art Academy of Birmingham , received her diploma as an art teacher at the age of 20 and at the same time a scholarship to the British Museum in London. After a hold of her lecture on Buddhism was by a priest of the Christian Community in the anthroposophy attention and realized the sought her way between spirit and practical life.

She painted with people of all ages and was able to use the pictures to make diagnoses about their predispositions and diseases, which were valuable aids for teachers and doctors.

In 1927 she became an employee of the newly founded special education home for "soul care-needy" children in Sunfield, Clent, where she met Dr. Hilma Walter and Ita Wegman , (co-founder of the site), who later, in 1935, invited her to Arlesheim so that she could paint healing pictures in a therapeutic sense, which she did not find the time for in Clent. It was Wegman who set up a facility in Ascona for Liane Collot d'Herbois so that she could continue the research she had started in Clent on the production of vegetable colors and painting with sick children.

When world events made the clinic's economic situation increasingly difficult, Liane Collot d'Herbois followed Ita Wegman to Paris, later returned to Arlesheim and then accompanied Ita Wegman to Ascona, where she stayed until her death in 1943. She was commissioned to paint the “La Motta” chapel, which belongs to a home in Brissago, with frescoes. It was the chapel in which Ita Wegman's ashes were later buried.

In collaboration with Ita Wegman, Hilma Walter and Margarethe Hauschka , Liane Collot d'Herbois developed an independent painting therapy , the light-darkness-color work, in which healing processes are stimulated, “which go far beyond the balancing of mental peculiarities, which rather come from the spiritual intervene deeply in the physical constitution. "

In 1946 Liane Collot d'Herbois met the Dutch painter and sculptor Francine van Davelaer, with whom she traveled to many places in Europe and America where she was active as an artist and teacher. Holland then became the country in which the two finally settled and where a group of artists gathered around Liane Collot d'Herbois, who gave themselves the name "Magenta Group". In the transcripts Color, Part I, Part II Color , (color spheres) Liane Collot d'Herbois published the contents of their work with the magenta group.

From the Dutch doctor Dr. In 1978 she was asked Paolo Walburgh Schmidt to give a small group of therapists information about the purposeful use of color in painting therapy ; supported by Francine van Davelaer, Liane Collot d'Herbois was able to give them guidelines according to which they could work theoretically and practically. From 1983 onwards, younger doctors and curative teachers joined the group. In the book Light, Darkness and Color in Painting Therapy (light, darkness and color in painting therapy) the material of this healing course was documented.

In 1997 an exhibition of her pictures took place in the Goetheanum in Dornach. Liane Collot d'Herbois could be present in person. She died in 1999 at the age of almost 92.

In the three decades before Liane Collot d'Herbois' death, Elisa Métrailler and E. Leonora Hambrecht (members of the Magenta Group and Collot d'Herbois employees) worked with her to create the IONA archive for light-darkness-color work in Art and therapy with temporary headquarters in Owingen, Bodenseekreis. The works of art preserved in it were created through the light eclipse working method. The existing demonstration material shows the movements of light and darkness. The archive contains documents on the artistic career, on the collaboration with Dr. med. Hilma Walter, with Dr. med. Ita Wegman and others, correspondence and much more.

Works (in German)

  • Liane Collot d'Herbois: spheres of color. Workbook for the painting group "Magenta". Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2005, ISBN 978-3-88861-051-6
  • Liane Collot d'Herbois: Light, darkness and color in painting therapy. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2007, ISBN 978-3-88861-054-7

Exhibitions

  • The private gallery Collot de Herbois in Überlingen on Lake Constance shows 35 watercolors and pastels by the artist, but it is only open by the hour and by appointment.

literature

  • Peter Selg : Liane Collot d'Herbois and Ita Wegmann. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2008, ISBN 978-3-72351-327-9 .
  • EL Hambrecht and A. Zucker: Light, Darkness and Color in Painting Therapy, Case Studies, Volume 2.1. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2004, ISBN 3-88861-054-0 .
  • EL Hambrecht and A. Zucker: Diagnosis and therapy in light, darkness and color for sexual abuse and multiple sclerosis, case studies, volume 2.2. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2005, ISBN 3-88861-053-2 .
  • EL Hambrecht and A. Zucker: Light, Darkness and Color in Schizophrenic Disorders, Case Studies, Volume 2,3. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2007, ISBN 978-3-88861-055-4 .
  • EL Hambrecht and A. Zucker: Light, Darkness and Color in Curative Education and Social Therapy, Case Studies, Volume 2,4. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2010, ISBN 978-3-88861-056-1 .
  • EL Hambrecht: L. Collot d'Herbois, memories of friends and students. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2003, ISBN 3-88861-045-1 .
  • EL Hambrecht: L. Collot d'Herbois, A Way of Life.
    • Volume 1: The twelve light-darkness exercises, way to work for artists and therapists. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2011, ISBN 978-3-88861-057-8 .
    • Volume 2: Healing Images. Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2013, ISBN 978-3-88861-058-5 .
  • Peter Selg, Walter Schneider: Liane Collot d'Herbois. Work and life. Raffael-Verlag, Ittigen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523852-8-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Introduction by EL Hambrecht and A. Zucker: Light, Darkness and Color in Curative Education and Social Therapy, Case Studies, Volume 2.4 . Publishing house of the Dürnau Cooperative, Dürnau 2010, ISBN 978-3-88861-056-1
  2. ↑ Permanent exhibition: Collot de Herbois. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Collot d'Herbois, Liana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collot, liana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter, painting therapist, founder of light-darkness-color therapy
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Camelford, South West England
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1999
Place of death Driebergen , Netherlands