Hilma Af Klint Landscape
Although perhaps momentarily deterred steiner s discouragement did not last long and from 1912 onwards hilma continued to paint the temple series with augmented vigor always maintaining her public persona of being a landscape artist and keeping her more significant personal work a secret.
Hilma af klint landscape. Hilma af klint paints in the streaming on demand documentary beyond the visible. And this deep association with natural forms was to be an inspiration in her work. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by wassily kandinsky. Hilma af klint group ix suw no.
17 1914 5 oil on canvas 150 5 x 151 cm courtesy of stiftelsen hilma af klints verk. The fourth child of captain victor af klint a swedish naval commander and mathilda af klint née sonntag hilma af klint spent summers with her family at their farm hammora on the island of adelsö in lake mälaren. Her landscape and portrait paintings were a good source of income marked by an impulse to make. Intricate beautiful an astonishing labour based on the measurements he took around viborg in.
Af klint soon reached a respected position in the swedish art world as a professional landscape and portrait painter exhibiting and selling her work. Bold colorful and untethered from any recognizable references to the physical world. The fourth child of captain victor af klint a swedish naval commander and mathilda af klint née sonntag 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.
This exhibition featured bold colorful paintings by a long underrecognized innovator of abstract art hilma af klint 1862 1944. Moderna museet stockholm. When hilma af klint 1862 1944 began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906 they were like little that had been seen before.