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This catalogue raisonné contains the entire production of the abstract pioneer Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). The catalogue consists of seven volumes containing a total of nearly 1,600 works. Hilma af Klint has taken the art world by storm. Once virtually unknown, she is now included among the greatest modern painters and her works are considered groundbreaking. Almost 80 years after her death, she has redrawn the map of early abstract art, both in Sweden and internationally. ”A catalogue raisonné is necessary in order to see the different cycles, motifs and symbols that recur in such an exciting way. If someone really wants to understand how Hilma af Klint’s works function, they need these books,” says Daniel Birnbaum, director of Acute Art and former director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, who was co-editor with Kurt Almqvist. The first three volumes, Spiritualistic Drawings 1895–1910, The Paintings for the Temple 1906–1915 and The Blue Books, were published in 2020. The first volume presents the 15 sketchbooks produced by the group of artists known as The Five, which included af Klint. This period constitutes an important starting point for her abstract painting and for what would later lead to her most important series—The Paintings for the Temple. The second volume comprises these paintings, a total of 193 works, including the iconic The Ten Largest. The third volume presents the ten blue books that Hilma af Klint used to show small copies of The Paintings for the Temple, an easy way to present her works to people when she traveled. According to af Klint’s own notes, these books were not intended to be studied until 20 years after her death. The fourth volume, Parsifal and the Atom 1916–1917, shows the two series Parcifal and The Atom. The Parcifal series was inspired by the legend of King Arthur and has been interpreted as an investigation of inner realms, while The Atom is apparently an exploration of the spiritual structure of the universe. At the end of the 1910s, Hilma af Klint created a number of series of small paintings in which abstract imagery is explored using a ruler and compass. These are presented in the volume Geometric Series and Other Works 1917–1920. In 1922, at the age of 60, Hilma af Klint completely abandoned her geometric approach for watercolours inspired by the Anthroposophical movement. The works from this period are presented in the sixth volume, Late Watercolours 1922–1941.

Af Klint, Hilma --- Watercolor painting, Swedish. --- Spiritualism in art. --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Painting, Abstract --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- af Klint, Hilma

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"A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals were shown during her lifetime, her body of radical, abstract works never received the same attention. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint produced the earliest abstract paintings by a trained European artist. But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a successful woman artist, but she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting, af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well before Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich declared themselves the inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a non-representational mode, producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the history of the museum/institution. Despite her enormous popularity, there has not yet been a biography of af Klint-until now. Inspired by her first encounter with the artist's work in 2008, Julia Voss set out to learn Swedish and research af Klint's life-not only who the artist was but what drove and inspired her. The result is a fascinating biography of an artist who is as great as she is enigmatic."

Painters --- Women painters --- 75.071 --- kunst --- Zweden --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- schilderkunst --- abstractie --- abstracte schilderkunst --- spiritisme --- theosofie --- af Klint Hilma --- tekenkunst --- Women artists --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- 737.8 --- af Klint, Hilma --- antroposofie --- conceptuele kunst --- biografie --- schilder- en tekenkunst, 20e eeuw, overige landen, kunstenaars afzonderlijk --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers --- ART / European --- Painting, Swedish

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Sweden may be seen as a Protestant nation of great engineers and entrepreneurs, but the nation’s spiritual life has long been influenced by a less official current, visible in its art and literature. Mysticism and esoteric speculation runs through the writings of some of Sweden’s most important figures, from the 18th-century scientist, theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg to the turn of the 20th century with August Strindberg, known primarily as a novelist and playwright. He was also involved in alchemical experiments, occult photography and proto-expressionist paintings that verge on abstraction. In the same period we find art by visionaries such as Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson and Hilma af Klint. These visions continue to inspire contemporary artists such as Cecilia Edefalk, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef and Lars Olof Loeld.

kunst --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 7.036/039 --- af Klint Hilma --- Cassel Anna --- Strindberg August --- Josephson Ernst --- Youssef Daniel --- Höller Carsten --- Edefalk Cecilia --- Loeld Lars Olof --- abstractie --- abstracte kunst --- fonograaf --- Zweden --- licht --- lichtkunst --- schilderkunst --- tekenkunst --- installaties --- fotografie --- natuurfotografie --- marines --- zeegezichten --- theosofie --- spiritualiteit --- alchemie --- esoterie --- mystiek --- Youssef, Daniel --- Suède --- Photography --- spiritualiteit. --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Strindberg, August. --- Josephson, Ernst. --- Loeld, Lars Olof. --- Cassel, Anna. --- Hill, Carl Fredrik. --- Edefalk, Cecilia. --- Zweden. --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Strindberg, August --- Josephson, Ernst --- Loeld, Lars Olof --- Cassel, Anna --- Hill, Carl Fredrik --- Edefalk, Cecilia

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"At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of twentieth-century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape the world. She strongly believed in a spiritual dimension to the universe and devoted her life to an exploration of this realm. Hilma af Klint's process of investigation took many forms and drew on systems and symbols outside the traditional language of art. Notes and Methods traces the origins of her powerful abstract work. Included are the mediumistic drawings she created with the group of women who called themselves The Five; Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens, a spiritual explication of the plant world; and the Blue Books, in which af Klint catalogued her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple. Notes and Methods is the first extensive English translation of the writings of Hilma af Klint. In addition to translations of all notebooks reproduced, Notes and Methods also includes Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint, an invaluable guide to the meaning behind the work, compiled by Hilma af Klint herself"

Kunst --- spiritualisme --- Abstract [kunststijl] --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Hilma af Klint --- Art --- spiritualism --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Painting, Abstract --- Spirit art --- Spirituality in art --- 741.07 --- Klint, Hilma af 1862-1944 (°Solna, Zweden) --- Abstracte schilderkunst ; biomorfisme --- Thema's in de kunst : mystiek en spiritualiteit --- Kunst en esoterie ; het occulte --- Theosofie --- Antroposofie --- Abstract painting --- Non-objective painting --- Painting, Non-objective --- Painting, Modern --- Psychic art --- Spiritualism --- Tekenkunst ; tekenkunstenaars A - Z --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- Aesthetics. --- af Klint, Hilma --- Abstract [modern European style] --- Peinture abstraite --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Klint, Hilma af

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Ce livre présente le travail extraordinaire de trois artistes de différentes générations qui approchent l'abstraction non pas comme un formalisme, mais comme une manière philosophique structurée, scientifique, et d'idées transcendentales. (extrait du 4ème de couverture)

Kunz, Emma --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Martin, Agnes --- Drawing, Abstract --- Drawing --- Dessin abstrait --- Dessin --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Kunz, Emma, --- Martin, Agnes, --- Klint, Hilma af --- Art abstrait --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Martin, Agnès --- 7.038 --- 741 "19" --- Hilma af Klint 1862-1944 (° Karlsberg, Zweden) Emma Kunz 1892-1963 (° Brittnau, Kanton Aargau, Zwitserland) --- Agnes Martin 1912-2004 (° Maklin, Saskatchewan, Canada ; sinds 1950 --- Amerikaans staatsburger) --- Tekenkunst ; 20te eeuw ; H. Af Klint ; E. Kunz ; A. Martin --- Kunst ; van vrouwen ; 20ste eeuw --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; New York ; The Drawing Center --- Abstracte kunst --- 741.038 --- (069) --- 741 "19" Tekenkunst--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Tekenkunst--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 7.038 Abstracte kunst. Non-figuratieve kunst. Concrete kunst --- Abstracte kunst. Non-figuratieve kunst. Concrete kunst --- Tekenkunst ; 1950 - 2000 --- (Musea. Collecties) --- Kunz, Emma 1892-1963 (°Brittnau, Aargau, Zwitserland) --- Martin, Agnes 1912-2004 (°Macklin, Canada) --- Af Klint, Hilma 1862-1944 (°Solna, Zweden) --- Tekenkunst ; 20ste eeuw ; H. Af Klint ; E. Kunz ; A. Martin --- Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Artists --- Spirituality --- Tentoonstellingscatalogus --- Visual arts --- Book