Hilma af Klint. Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were among the first Western abstract art.
A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called The Five, a circle of women who shared her belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called High Masters, often by way of séances.
Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. The fourth child of Captain Victor af Klint, a Swedish naval commander, and Mathilda af Klint, Hilma af Klint spent summers with her family at their manor Hanmora on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren.
In these idyllic surroundings Hilma came into contact with nature at an early stage in her life; and this deep association with natural forms was to be an inspiration in her work. Later in life, Hilma af Klint came to live on a permanent basis at Munsö, an island next to Adelsö.
From her family, Hilma af Klint inherited a great interest for mathematics and botany. She showed an early ability in visual art, and after the family moved to Stockholm, she studied at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm, where she learned portraiture and landscape painting.She was admitted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the age of twenty. During the years 1882-1887 she studied mainly drawing, and portrait-and lan
A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called The Five, a circle of women who shared her belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called High Masters, often by way of séances.
Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. The fourth child of Captain Victor af Klint, a Swedish naval commander, and Mathilda af Klint, Hilma af Klint spent summers with her family at their manor Hanmora on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren.
In these idyllic surroundings Hilma came into contact with nature at an early stage in her life; and this deep association with natural forms was to be an inspiration in her work. Later in life, Hilma af Klint came to live on a permanent basis at Munsö, an island next to Adelsö.
From her family, Hilma af Klint inherited a great interest for mathematics and botany. She showed an early ability in visual art, and after the family moved to Stockholm, she studied at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm, where she learned portraiture and landscape painting.She was admitted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the age of twenty. During the years 1882-1887 she studied mainly drawing, and portrait-and lan
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