Rudolf Kutzli (1915-1998) was a teacher, scholar and traveller. An authority on Ars Lineandi (the art of the line of the Middle Ages), he is best known for his work on modern dynamic and creative form drawing. He suggested “that wisdom flows through the meaningfully guided line”.
With his wife Gertrud Schefer, Kutzli founded the first Rudolf Steiner boarding school in Switzerland, the École-Famille-Montolieu. In accordance with the Waldorf curriculum, the school placed particular emphasis on arts and crafts.
Form drawing was already included in Waldorf teaching, but at Rudolf Steiner’s suggestion, Kutzli developed it further. From 1969 he gave lectures and seminars on the subject. His 12-part course The Development of Creative Powers through Living Form Drawing (Entfaltung schöpferischer Kräfte durch lebendiges Formenzeichnen), which was first published in 1981-1987, gives a systematic account of this work.
The last three sections of Kutzli’s course refer to Rudolf Steiner’s seal drawings and the column capitals of the First Goetheanum as stages in a process of metamorphosis in which free forms derived from the creative process can meet and extend the Ars Lineandi.
Author’s Books
Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 1
Rudolf Kutzli
Workbook 1 containing the first four sections of Rudolf Kutzli’s course in creative form drawing. Read more →
Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 2
Rudolf Kutzli
Workbook 2 containing sections 5 to 8 of Rudolf Kutzli’s course in creative form drawing. Read more →
Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 3
Rudolf Kutzli
The concluding workbook of Rudolf Kutzli’s course in creative form drawing, containing the last four sections of his 12-section guide. Read more →