SVETOZAR: Art of the Lightbearers

This collection of unique paintings comes from The Lightbearer collection. The Lightbearers organization was founded by Baron Eugene Fersen in the early 1920s.

 

After fleeing Russia before WWI and the Russian Revolution, Fersen traveled across the US teaching the Lightbearer philosophy. In the 1930s, he settled in the Pacific Northwest, purchasing a mansion in Seattle. Eventually, he was drawn to the Columbia River Gorge, which he believed to be a “spiritual vortex.”

 

The pieces of this collection, gifted to or commissioned by Fersen himself, visually represents his New Age Enlightenment philosophies and teachings which were influenced by his mother and various world religions.

 

Most notably are pieces from Henry Malcom Thurburn. Thurburn became a resident artist to Fersen illustrating his influential book from 1923, Science of Being.