The influence of anthroposophical ideas of R. Steiner on the beautiful triptych of V.A. Vatagin "The evolution of worldviews"

In this article the influence Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophic ideas on the formation of the artwork collection of the State Darwin Museum (SDM) is examined, based on the work of the painter Vasiliy A. Vatagin. The founder and the first director of SDM - professor Alexander F. Cotes, was a passionate admirer of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and this, in turn, attracted him to the anthroposophic ideas. Besides this, Alexander F. Cotes, as well as all the intellectuals of the beginning of the last century, believed that the art promotes the spiritual development of the human, and that motivated him to collaborate with the remarkable artist Vasiliy Vatagin to create the exposition of the natural-science museum. The author of this article discovered certain parallels by comparing the artistic program of the murals of the building of the first Goetheanum with the oil paintings of the Vasiliy A. Vatagin, that made possible to reveal the meaning of the triptych “Evolution of the World Views” from the point view of the anthroposophy.