GA 291 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Das Wesen der Farben

The Essence of Color

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-2910-0 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2910-1 the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-6510-9 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1991	256	the publisher's online catalog
	1991		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

16 units in the printed table of contents, about 75,860 words the printed table of contents.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
Zu dieser Ausgabe			apparatus	429
Vorbemerkungen			apparatus	2060
Vorwort zur ersten Ausgabe von 1929			text	546
Das Farberlebnis - Die vier Bildfarben Dornach, 6. Mai 1921	1921-05-06		lecture	5619
Bildwesen und Glanzwesen der Farben Dornach, 7. Mai 1921	1921-05-07		lecture	5138
Farbe und Materie - Malen aus der Farbe Dornach, 8. Mai 1921	1921-05-08		lecture	6943
DIE SCHÖPFERISCHE WELT DER FARBE Dornach, 26. Juli 1914	1914-07-26	Dornach	lecture	6804
DAS MORALISCHE ERLEBEN DER FARBEN- UND TONWELT.. Dornach, 1. ]anuar 1915			text	5479
LICHT UND FINSTERNIS ALS ZWEI WELT-ENTITÄTEN Dornach, 5. Dezember 1920	1920-12-05	Dornach	lecture	4027
DAS LEBEN IM LICHT UND IN DER SCHWERE Dornach, 10. Dezember 1920	1920-12-10	Dornach	lecture	6402
DIE ZWEI GRUNDGESETZE DER FARBENLEHRE IN MORGENRÖTE, ABENDRÖTE UND HIMMELSBLÄUE, Dornach, 21. Februar 1923	1923-02-21	Dornach	lecture	6112
VON DER RAUMPERSPEKTIVE ZUR FARBEN PERSPEKTIVE Dornach, 2. Juni 1923	1923-06-02	Dornach	lecture	5243
GEIST UND UNGEIST IN DER MALEREI TIZIANS «HIMMELFAHRT MARIA» Dornach, 9. Juni 1923	1923-06-09	Dornach	lecture	5944
MASS, ZAHL UND GEWICHT..Dornach, 29. Juli 1923	1923-07-29		lecture	6315
DIE HIERARCHIEN UND DAS WESEN DES REGENBOGENS Dornach, 4. Januar 1924	1924-01-04	Dornach	lecture	4526
Hinweise			apparatus	4273

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
Printed units of text	13 the site's completeness audit
Words served	69105 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA291/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026

English

Served on this site

Colour the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSPC1935

Translator	Harry Collison the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1935
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

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
Witnesses differ: Colour the SteinerBooks catalog Color AnthroWiki (English) CW 291 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	John Salter and Pauline Wehrle AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	1997	9781855840850	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	13	2, 8, 3	308	6, 8

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	1 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	33 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	19 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. Minor omissions or condensation are possible. 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

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Das Wesen der Farben (GA 291), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/291/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/291/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSPC1935.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_291
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_291 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English 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
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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)
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the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 2bb06baefbb46f37
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA291/English/RSPC1935/Colour_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
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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
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