Name: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume vi: Late Watercolours (1922-1941): Catalogue Raisonné Volume 6: Late Watercolours (1922-1941):
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Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume vi: Late Watercolours (1922-1941): Catalogue Raisonné Volume 6: Late Watercolours (1922-1941):

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hilma af Klint

Preface by

Daniel Birnbaum

Kurt Almqvist

Publisher

Bokforlaget Stolpe AB

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

252

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

31.6 x 24.6 x 4.2 cm

Weight

2.81 kg.

ISBN13

9789189069275

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume vi: Late Watercolours (1922-1941): Catalogue Raisonné Volume 6: Late Watercolours (1922-1941): "

Gathering af Klint's 1920s works made after her mother's death and her abandonment of geometric abstractionIn the 1920s, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) spent extended periods in Dornach, Switzerland, where Rudolf Steiner had established an international center for the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum. At the Goetheanum, af Klint took part in the center's rich cultural life. Among other things, she studied Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's theory of color. In 1922, at the age of 60, she completely abandoned her geometrical way of working for the "wet-on-wet" watercolor method inspired by anthroposophy, and developed by Steiner and his circle. An example of this is her series On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees from 1922. Most of the series presented in this, the sixth volume of Hilma af Klint's catalogue raisonné, have no titles.

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Hilma af Klint (Solna, Sweden, October 26, 1862 - Danderyd, Sweden, October 21, 1944) was a Swedish painter recognized as a pioneer of abstract art. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, where she specialized in naturalist painting. However, her interest in esotericism and spiritualism led her to develop an abstract artistic language from 1906, ahead of contemporaries like Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.

Among her most notable works are the series "The Ten Largest" (1907), "The Swan" (1915), and "The Paintings for the Temple" (1906-1915). Her work remained unpublished until 1986, as per her wish that it not be exhibited until at least 20 years after her death, considering that her time was not prepared to understand it. Although she received no awards in her lifetime, her legacy has been the subject of major posthumous exhibitions, such as the one organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2024.

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