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Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art.  
 
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art.  
  
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Hilma af Klint (*October 26, 1862, at Castle Karlberg in Solna, near Stockholm,
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She attended the Tekniska Skolan (Technical school) in Stockholm in 1880, and took classes in portrait painting taught by Kerstin Cardon. From 1882 to 1887 she studied at the Königliche Akademie der Schönen Künste (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) and graduated with top grades. From the late 1880s on she worked in a studio of her own, which was provided to her and two other female artists by the art academy. In 1896 she and four friends founded a spiritualist all-female group called [[The Five]] or The Friday Group, and together they held séances. Around the turn of the century she was employed at a veterinary  
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Sweden; † October 21, 1944, in Djursholm, Sweden) attended the Tekniska Skolan  
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school, doing drawings. In 1908 she met Rudolf Steiner, who later founded anthroposophy. In 1920 she joined the Theosophical Society and traveled for the first time, to Dornach in Switzerland, where she met Steiner once again. Between 1921 and 1930 she spent increasingly longer periods of time in Dornach, engaged in an intensive study of anthroposophy, and attended Steiner’s lectures.
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(Technical school) in Stockholm in 1880, and took classes in portrait painting  
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taught by Kerstin Cardon. From 1882 to 1887 she studied at the Königliche Akademie der Schönen Künste (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) and graduated with top  
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grades. From the late 1880s on she worked in a studio of her own, which was  
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provided to her and two other female artists by the art academy. In 1896 she  
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* [http://www.axsonjohnsonfoundation.org/content/pdf/Hilma-af-Klint.pdf Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction], brochure, Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2013.  
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and four friends founded a spiritualist all-female group called [[The Five]] or The Friday Group, and together they  
 
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held séances. Around the turn of the century she was employed at a veterinary  
 
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school, doing drawings. In 1908 she met Rudolf Steiner, who later founded anthroposophy. In 1920 she joined the Theosophical Society and traveled for the first  
 
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time, to Dornach in Switzerland, where she met Steiner once again. Between  
 
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1921 and 1930 she spent increasingly longer periods of time in Dornach, engaged  
 
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in an intensive study of anthroposophy, and attended Steiner’s lectures.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 19:35, 28 July 2013


Hilma af Klint in her studio at Hamngatan 5, Stockholm, c1895. Photographer unknown.
Born October 26, 1862(1862-10-26)
Castle Karlberg, Solna, near Stockholm, Sweden
Died October 21, 1944(1944-10-21) (aged 81)
Djursholm, Sweden

Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art.

She attended the Tekniska Skolan (Technical school) in Stockholm in 1880, and took classes in portrait painting taught by Kerstin Cardon. From 1882 to 1887 she studied at the Königliche Akademie der Schönen Künste (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) and graduated with top grades. From the late 1880s on she worked in a studio of her own, which was provided to her and two other female artists by the art academy. In 1896 she and four friends founded a spiritualist all-female group called The Five or The Friday Group, and together they held séances. Around the turn of the century she was employed at a veterinary school, doing drawings. In 1908 she met Rudolf Steiner, who later founded anthroposophy. In 1920 she joined the Theosophical Society and traveled for the first time, to Dornach in Switzerland, where she met Steiner once again. Between 1921 and 1930 she spent increasingly longer periods of time in Dornach, engaged in an intensive study of anthroposophy, and attended Steiner’s lectures.

Works

See

Literature
  • Iris Müller-Westermann, Jo Widoff (eds.), Hilma af Klint. A Pioneer of Abstraction, Hatje Cantz, 2013. ISBN 978-3-7757-3489-9. [1]
External links
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