Natural History

Natural History

About the Author

Eugen Kolisko grew up in a Viennese family of doctors. Through his school friend Walter Johannes Stein he became acquainted with anthroposophy at an early age: he first heard Rudolf Steiner’s lectures in 1914 and became a member of the Anthroposophical Society. In 1917 he completed his medical studies and became a lecturer in medicinal chemistry at the University of Vienna. In 1920 he was engaged by Emil Molt as a teacher and school doctor at the newly founded Stuttgart Waldorf School. In addition, he was active, mostly together with his wife Lili (1889-1976), as a collaborator in various anthroposophical specialist courses, and from 1924 with Ita Wegman in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. His wife Lili is regarded as the founder of the so-called «Steigbildmethode» (capillary dynamolysis), a procedure of the image forming methods of anthroposophy. Eugen Kolisko was particularly involved in the development of various artistic therapies such as eurythmy therapy, anthroposophical music therapy and healing singing.