Understanding Art
| Edition | Not identified: the source archive merged this volume's English editions, and no edition or translator could be matched to the served text the site's completeness audit. |
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GA 271 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions
Kunst und Kunsterkenntnis
Understanding Art
German units missingtranslation not identifiedGerman source unrecorded
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
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| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
| ISBN |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1985 | 250 | the publisher's online catalog |
| 1985 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
17 units in the printed table of contents, about 69,067 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1989.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS EINEM NOTIZBUCH um 1888 | text | 514 | ||
| GOETHE ALS VATER EINER NEUEN ÄSTHETIK Wien, 9. November 1888 (Autoreferat) Vorbemerkungen zur zweiten Auflage | 1888-11-09 | Wien | lecture | 7791 |
| ÜBER DAS KOMISCHE UND SEINEN ZUSAMMENHANG MIT KUNST UND LEBEN um 1890/91 | text | 3522 | ||
| DAS SCHÖNE UND DIE KUNST 1898 | text | 842 | ||
| GRAF LEO TOLSTOI- WAS IST KUNST? 1898 | text | 1070 | ||
| ÜBER WAHRHEIT UND WAHRSCHEINLICHKEIT DER KUNSTWERKE 1898 | text | 1746 | ||
| II DAS WESEN DER KÜNSTE Berlin, 28. Oktober 1909 | 1909-10-28 | Berlin | lecture | 5850 |
| DAS SINNLICH-ÜBERSINNLICHE IN SEINER VERWIRKLICHUNG DURCH DIE KUNST München, 15. Februar 1918 | 1918-02-15 | München | lecture | 7652 |
| DAS SINNLICH-ÜBERSINNLICHE IN SEINER VERWIRKLICHUNG DURCH DIE KUNST München, 17. Februar 1918 | 1918-02-17 | München | lecture | 6635 |
| DIE QUELLEN DER KÜNSTLERISCHEN PHANTASIE UND DIE QUELLEN DER ÜBERSINNLICHEN ERKENNTNIS München, 5. Mai 1918 | 1918-05-05 | München | lecture | 6069 |
| DIE QUELLEN DER KÜNSTLERISCHEN PHANTASIE UND DIE QUELLEN DER ÜBERSINNLICHEN ERKENNTNIS München, 6. Mai 1918 | 1918-05-06 | München | lecture | 6508 |
| DAS SINNLICH-ÜBERS1NNLICHE ö GEISTIGE ERKENNTNIS UND KÜNSTLERISCHES SCHAFFEN Wien, 1. Juni 1918 | 1918-06-01 | Wien | lecture | 7609 |
| DER ÜBERSINNLICHE URSPRUNG DES KÜNSTLERISCHEN Dornach, 12. September 1920 | 1920-09-12 | Dornach | lecture | 4913 |
| DIE PSYCHOLOGIE DER KÜNSTE Dornach, 9. April 1921 | 1921-04-09 | Dornach | lecture | 4898 |
| QUELLENNACHWEIS | apparatus | 361 | ||
| HINWEISE | apparatus | 2742 | ||
| PERSONENREGISTER | apparatus | 345 |
German text
Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.
| Units served | 13 the site's completeness audit |
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| Printed units of text | 14 the site's completeness audit |
| Words served | 64270 the site's completeness audit |
| Served against the print | 0.98 (comparable) the site's completeness audit |
| Source | https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA271/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026 |
| Edition used | 1989 the source record of the served German |
Printed units not served in German
| Unit | Date | Why |
|---|---|---|
| ÜBER WAHRHEIT UND WAHRSCHEINLICHKEIT DER KUNSTWERKE 1898 | outside_window | |
| Truth and Versimilitude in Art |
English
Served on this site
Other English translations known
Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.
| Title | Translator | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Art and Theory of Art the SteinerBooks catalog CW 271 the SteinerBooks catalog | contributors: Clifford Venho, Dorit Winter, Zvi Szir | SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog | 2021 | 9781621481898 9781621481904 |
in copyright |
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 14 | 7, 6, 1 | 349 | 1, 2 |
A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables
Pictures
| Printed in the volume | 0 the site's completeness audit |
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| Image files served | 0 the site's completeness audit |
| Blackboard drawings | 2 plates the site's blackboard index |
Quality marks
- 2 printed units are not served in German. the site's completeness audit
- The served English translation is not identified: no edition or translator is on record. the site's completeness audit
- The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German
Gaps
- ÜBER WAHRHEIT UND WAHRSCHEINLICHKEIT DER KUNSTWERKE 1898: outside_window the site's completeness audit
- Truth and Versimilitude in Art: not served the site's completeness audit
How to cite this witness
Rudolf Steiner, Kunst und Kunsterkenntnis (GA 271), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/271/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/271/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions English.
Witnesses
Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.
- the site's alignment tables
- ~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db ·
sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json - AnthroWiki (German)
- https://anthrowiki.at/GA_271
AnthroWiki's page for the volume - the site's blackboard index
- site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
- the site's GA catalog
- data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
- the publisher's online catalog
- the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json - the source record of the served German
- data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
- the publisher's catalog of 2022
- Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json - the printed table of contents
- data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json ·
sha256 709e80775b6dce61 - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
- the site's completeness audit
- research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
- the SteinerBooks catalog
- SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json
status as of · all volumes