Fondazione Eranos

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Fondazione Eranos

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Fondazione culturale svizzera La Fondazione si pone concretamente gli scopi seguenti:

1.

Lo svolgimento di conferenze annuali chiamate Eranos Tagung nello spirito e secondo le intenzioni della fondatrice Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (scienza comparata delle religioni, scienze morali, scienze naturali)
2. La collaborazione con altri istituti ed enti per creare ulteriori incontri interdisciplinari nello spirito di Eranos;
3. La raccolta delle conferenze Eranos in un annuario da pubblicare a cura di una casa editrice. La divulgazione con i mezzi di informazione moderni, in modo da raggiungere col messaggio Eranos la più larga cerchia possibile di persone interessate;
4. La creazione di un luogo di lavoro e di rigenerazione per persone attive nel campo intellettuale. A discrezione del Consiglio di Fondazione, può essere messo a disposizione per periodi definiti un alloggio nelle proprietà di Eranos, gratuitamente o dietro corresponsione di una modesta partecipazione ai costi.

09/11/2026

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn at Casa Eranos the mid-1930s.

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04/11/2026

The Eranos Foundation warmly congratulates Dutch writer and historian Maite Karssenberg, winner of the prestigious 2026 Libris History Prize for her book "Dubbelleven", dedicated to the remarkable life of Geertruida Kapteyn-Muysken (1855–1920), mother of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, the founder of Eranos. An important recognition that brings renewed attention to a pioneering figure in women's emancipation and to the family and cultural roots of Eranos.

La Fondazione Eranos si congratula con la scrittrice e storica olandese Maite Karssenberg, vincitrice del prestigioso Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2026 con il volume "Dubbelleven", dedicato alla straordinaria figura di Geertruida Kapteyn-Muysken (1855–1920), madre di Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, fondatrice di Eranos. Un importante riconoscimento che riporta alla luce una protagonista dell'emancipazione femminile e le radici familiari e culturali di Eranos.

Het boek gaat over een vrouw in de 19de eeuw die moet vechten om haar ambities waar te maken, terwijl ze als getrouwde vrouw een huishouden moet runnen.

02/11/2026

Our warmest thanks to Vanessa Meier, Abbiramie Ramakrishnan, and Jana Grob, from CH Media and TeleZüri, for visiting the Eranos Foundation today. It was a pleasure to share the story of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the cultural heritage of Eranos in preparation for an upcoming episode of «Street Smart», a programme dedicated to discovering the people, places, and stories of Switzerland.

Un sentito ringraziamento a Vanessa Meier, Abbiramie Ramakrishnan e Jana Grob, di CH Media e TeleZüri, per la visita di oggi alla Fondazione Eranos. È stato un piacere condividere la storia di Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn e il patrimonio culturale di Eranos, in vista di una prossima puntata del programma «Street Smart», dedicato alla scoperta di persone, luoghi e storie della Svizzera.

26/10/2026

Conferenza "Eros e malinconia", a cura del Prof. Sarantis Thanopulo...

24/10/2026

The green round table at Eranos reflects the light and colors of autumn.

La tavola rotonda verde di Eranos riflette le luci e i colori dell’autunno.

22/10/2026

“You must pardon me for speaking in images! It is the way my mind works,” wrote Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881 - 1962), pioneering founder of the Eranos Conferences, held in Ascona, Switzerland, since the early 1930s.

Jung was one of the main sources of inspiration for Eranos. Yet the link between Fröbe-Kapteyn’s own life, imagination and creativity long remained unclear. She spoke of the story of Eranos as an unwritten book, full of pictures, its pattern intertwined with the pattern of her life.

In “The Art of the Self: The ‘Blue Book’ of Eranos Founder Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn”, IAAP Member Riccardo Bernardini (Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland) suggests that her words become clearer today, through the unpublished anthology of her works he calls the “Blue Book”. The name reflects the colour running through her images, made across two phases: the “Meditation Plates” (c. 1926 - 1934) and the “Visions” (1934 - 1938).

Her works waited forty years before Harald Szeemann revived them in a 1978 exhibition. Since then they have appeared in an astonishing series of exhibitions, from the Centre Pompidou in Paris to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, marking the 150th anniversary of Jung’s birth.

Bernardini invites us to look at the “Blue Book” as an initiatic corpus of our time. Working in tempera, India ink, pastel and gold leaf, Fröbe-Kapteyn gave form to an intimate mystery of feminine transformation, in which the golden brightness of the Self often stands out against a generative blue background. For some, her images have even become a therapeutic tool to heal deep, sometimes unspeakable wounds, as she did with herself.

She perhaps hoped, he writes, that future generations would rediscover the “Blue Book” and make it their own, as a testament to that endless search for self, at once personal and universal, that Jung would theorise as the individuation process.

Follow the link in our bio to IAAP News Bulletin No. 55 to read Riccardo Bernardini’s article in full, or visit iaap.org/the-art-of-the-self-the-blue-book-of-eranos-founder-olga-frobe-kapteyn-by-riccardo-bernardini/

Art: Painting by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn

16/10/2026

A crescent moon and the delicate colors of an October sunset, seen from Eranos, overlooking Lake Maggiore.

Uno spicchio di luna crescente e i delicati colori di un tramonto d’ottobre, visti da Eranos, affacciata sul Lago Maggiore.

25/09/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming again the Kantonsschule Trogen (Appenzell) high school seniors, accompanied by Professor Sandra Hüggelmeyer-Pavicic.

19/09/2026

With thanks to Pilar Amezaga and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) for the attention devoted to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881–1962) is known for being the pioneering founder of the Eranos Conferences, which since the early 1930s have attracted to Ascona (Switzerland) some of the most influential scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, making an extraordinary contribution to world i...

10/09/2026

The 2026 Eranos Conference, 'Eclipse of the Dèmos and Betrayals of Democracy,' opens under the auspices of a sky turning pink.

Il Convegno di Eranos 2026, “Eclissi del dèmos e tradimenti della democrazia”, si apre sotto gli auspici di un cielo che si tinge di rosa.

Adresse

Fondazione Eranos, Via Moscia 125
Ascona
6612

Telefon

+41917922092

Website

http://www.eranosfoundation.org/

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