Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer

Åke Fant (author)

Hilma af Klint is now 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 Klint’s spiritual leader Rudolf Steiner.

Åke Fant (1943–1997) was a university lecturer, art historian and sculptor. He is widely recognised as the foremost expert on Hilma af Klint’s body of work and implemented the first full study of her works.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stolpe Publishing; 1st edition (25 Mar. 2021)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789189069473
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23 x 29 cm