The Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music integrates these arts, bringing them to life on stage and working in concert with other sections to develop their pedagogical and therapeutic potential. Based on a spiritual-scientific image of man, its aim is to make visible the complete human being, giving expression to supersensible forces and inherent laws that form the human constitution. Like other sections, the Section for Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music is a training center engaged in teaching and research.
The Art Section embraces painting, sculpture and architecture, product design, glass engraving, color studies and plant-color research. Art therapy and art education are also included through inter-sectional work. The process of cultivating Rudolf Steiner's artistic ideas and developing them further leads to creative working relationships, international exhibitions and events, lectures, colloquia and courses on artistic topics. It guides the artistic work on the Goetheanum building itself, the neighboring buildings and the surrounding landscape.
The work of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities is captured by its motto: «In thought, develop sight.» Its aim: to cultivate and deepen the humanities through Anthroposophy. Literature and linguistics, aesthetics, history, philosophy, the history of music and art history are within its purview. Central to its work are literature and poetry, linguistic explorations and the cultivation of language itself, for language is the living link between content and form. The Section sees its task related to bridging the gap between art and science.
