Hilma Af Klint Landscapes
This oil on canvas summer landscape was painted in 1888.
Hilma af klint landscapes. At the age of 20 she was admitted to the royal academy of fine arts and during the years of 1882 1887 she studied mainly drawing portrait and landscape painting. Hilma af klint swedish pronunciation. This exhibition featured bold colorful paintings by a long underrecognized innovator of abstract art hilma af klint 1862 1944. New page hilma af klint exhibition copy.
Hilma af klint was a swedish woman artist who was painting revolutionary modern artwork for her time. The exhibition was organized by the. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by kandinsky. Af klint soon reached a respected position in the swedish art world as a professional landscape and portrait painter exhibiting and selling her work.
In 1887 hilma af klint was awarded a scholarship in the form of studio space in the ateljéhuset atelier building in stockholm where she began her work. In a rare and exceptional opportunity the tree of knowledge series by hilma af klint and a thirty four page sketchbook by the artist that explores the inner workings of plants are on loan from the albert steffen foundation in dornach switzerland to lightforms art center in hudson ny from late winter to early summer 2020. Very soon she became known for her portraits landscapes and botanical drawings and was able to maintain herself with their sales proceeds. October 26 1862 october 21 1944 was a swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were to the current art community the first western abstract art.
Paintings for the future continues through april 23 at the solomon r. Artists in this show have endeavored to deeply immerse themselves into the landscape and try to find the spirit within it and bring it to expression through light texture and color. Despite her amazing works of art and legacy she left us it has only been during the last 40 years that she has started to gain international acclaim. Guggenheim museum 1071 fifth avenue upper east side manhattan.
When the family moved to stockholm af klint studied at the academy of fine arts of stockholm where she learned portraiture and landscape painting.