Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer
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Keyword: 20th century, painting, drawing, Swedish artist
Size: 232 x 290 mm Pages: 254 Format: hardcover Language: English Author: Åke Fant Preface: Kurt Almqvist, Lars Nittve Illustration: in colour Book design: Patric Leo Printing: Narayana Press Publisher: Bokförlaget Stolpe Pub Year: 2021 Weight: 1620 gr ISBN 13: 9789189069473Description
Article no.: 9789189069473
A new edition of Åke Fant's classic book on af Klint from 1989 – published by Raster on the occassion of an exhibition at Moderna Museet 26 December 1989-18 February 1990
From the publisher:
This book is a re-print, first published in 1989 in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation, and also served as the exhibition catalogue for the big exhibition, with the same title, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Hilma af Klint is nowadays regarded as one of the Abstract Art pioneers. She painted more than 1200 works before her death in 1944, but never showed them publicly outside her anthropological and occult circles. After twenty years of artistry she developed a distinct abstract style, and devoted the rest of her life to a grand painterly mission. The spiritual aspect was the most important starting point for Hilma af Klint, just as it was for her contemporaries Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. These early modernists were influenced by the then contemporary occult writers like Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater, and certainly af Klints spiritual leader Rudolf Steiner. This book is a re-print, first published in 1989 in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation, and also served as the exhibition catalogue for the big exhibition, with the same title, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
From the publisher:
This book is a re-print, first published in 1989 in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation, and also served as the exhibition catalogue for the big exhibition, with the same title, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Hilma af Klint is nowadays regarded as one of the Abstract Art pioneers. She painted more than 1200 works before her death in 1944, but never showed them publicly outside her anthropological and occult circles. After twenty years of artistry she developed a distinct abstract style, and devoted the rest of her life to a grand painterly mission. The spiritual aspect was the most important starting point for Hilma af Klint, just as it was for her contemporaries Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. These early modernists were influenced by the then contemporary occult writers like Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater, and certainly af Klints spiritual leader Rudolf Steiner. This book is a re-print, first published in 1989 in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation, and also served as the exhibition catalogue for the big exhibition, with the same title, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.