Hilma af Klint

Name: Hilma af Klint
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ISBN: 9789189069237

Spiritualistic Drawings 1896–1910

Hilma af Klint, Kurt Almqvist, Kurt Almqvist

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English

Miscellaneous
01 April 2021

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Religious subjects depicted in art; Gender studies: women; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects

The drawings in this first volume of a new catalogue raisonné represent an intense ten-year period of Hilma af Klint's (1862-1944) life that would lay the foundation for her later achievements. In 1896, af Klint and four other women formed 'The Five', a group steeped in the spiritualist beliefs permeating Europe at that time, including theosophy, Rosicrucianism and other strains of liberal religious thought. From 1896 to 1907, The Five engaged in a daily systematic method of spiritual experimentation. During séances, Hilma af Klint drew automatic spiritual sketches based on the messages that the medium (not always the same member) communicated from the spirits the group summoned. The elaborate system of symbols, geometry and biological imagery that characterise her work all find their origin during this period.

By: Hilma af Klint, Kurt Almqvist
Foreword by: Kurt Almqvist
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: Sweden
Dimensions: Height: 13mm, Width: 10mm,
Weight: 2.670kg
ISBN: 9789189069237
ISBN 10: 9189069234
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 01 April 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Kurt Almqvist is the President of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Daniel Birnbaum is an art critic and artistic director of Acute Art in London and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.