Liane
Collot
d’Herbois

Her deep understanding of the world of colour enabled Liane Collot d’Herbois to express in her painting Rudolf Steiner’s image of man. What Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925) revealed about light and darkness was worked out further by Liane and on these foundations of light and darkness she developed her painting and her painting therapy.

Liane Collot d’Herbois received a strong impulse for the development of her work from Dr. Ita Wegman (1876 – 1943). Liane painted pictures for Dr. Wegman’s patients and she did painting therapy with them, following her instructions, in all Dr Wegman’s therapeutic institutions in England, France and Switzerland.

Doctors and therapists from all over the world visited Liane to ask about the therapeutic working of colours.

Right until the last days of her life Liane Collot d’Herbois was sharing her knowledge freely and generously, of the cosmic trinity of light, colour and darkness in relation both to the picture of the healthy human being and to situations of illness and the possibilities of healing.

Thanks to Walter Schneider from SchneiderEditionen

The foundation of this method of painting and paintingtherapy are reflected in the books of Liane Collot d’Herbois:

Original English publication

• Colour
  SchneiderEditionen ISBN 978-3-943305-26-5
• Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting-Therapy Ed. by Margreet Meijer
  SchneiderEditionen ISBN 978-3-943305-27-2

German translation

• Licht, Finsternis und Farbe in der Maltherapie
  Kooperative Durnau ISBN 3888610486
• Farbensphären
  Kooperative Durnau ISBN 3888610516

Dutch translation

• Licht, kleur en duisternis (vertaling van Colour, part one)
  Driebergen: Stichting Magenta, 1982 ISBN 90-800011-3-9
• Kleuren in de atmosfeer (vertaling van Colour, part two)
  Driebergen: Stichting Magenta, 1985 ISBN 90-800011-2-0

French translation

• Couleur – une étude
  Genève: Editions Anthroposophiques Romandes, 2001 ISBN 2-88189-162-4
• Lumière, Ténèbres et Couleur. Thérapie par la Peinture
  Genève: Editions Anthroposophiques Romandes 1997 ISBN 2-88189-126-8

• Diagnosis and Therapy after Liane Collot d’Herbois by Chantal Bernard and Janny Mager
  SchneiderEditionen ISBN 978-3-943305-69-2
• Color and the Human Being by Chantal Bernard and Janny Mager
  SchneiderEditionen ISBN 978-3-943305-57-9
• Liane Collot d’Herbois Werk und Leben Work and Life edited by Peter Selg (text) and Walter Schneider (photos and realisation)
  Raffael Verlag ISBN 9783952385289

• This article presents a case study whereby Monica Winnubst worked within a regular medical setting and published in a regular medical journal. The study shows the effects of light, colour and darkness therapy on the symptoms of patients with essential tremor. It assesses effects of therapy on the whole human being: physical, soul and spiritual.
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