Catalogue Raisonné – Serie

Hilma af Klint was classically trained, with a degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Although landscapes and portraits are not her most famous pieces, they remain important to her collection of works. This volume shows yet another side of Hilma af Klint s multifaceted artistry and presents her as painter of landscapes, portraits, and botanical specimens. The total number of illustrations is still not determined since many of these works were sold to private buyers, where they remain. In 2020 the search to find further works was initiated.

This volume shows Hilma af Klint as a painter of landscapes, portraits and botanical works. The total number of illustrations is still not determined since many of these works were sold to private buyers, where they remain. In 2020, the publishing house will conduct a search to find further works.

I tio blå böcker presenterade Hilma af Klint små kopior av Målningarna till templet, såväl fotografier som akvareller. I denna volym visas samtliga uppslag ur dessa böcker. Anledningen till varför hon skapade dessa replikor var för att på ett mer lättillgängligt sätt kunna visa upp verken för personer i andra länder. Bland andra för antroposofins grundare Rudolf Steiner. Möjligen var böckerna också ett sätt för henne själv att förstå verken, då hon menat att hon enbart agerat medium för de Höga mästarna . Böckerna är inte daterade, men det verkar sannolikt att de skapades under andra hälften av 1910-talet. Enligt af Klints egna anteckningar var dessa böcker inte menade att studeras förrän 20 år efter hennes död.

During the last years of the 1910s, Hilma af Klint created several series of small paintings in which she systematically explored an abstract idiom with the help of ruler and compasses. The triangles, squares, circles, and ellipses that appear here in constantly new constellations express a spiritual dynamic, according to af Klint s notebooks from these years. Hilma af Klint considered this work a kind of research, and she used spiritual scientific methods a term borrowed from anthroposophy in order to understand the evolution and development of mankind. In her studies of living beings, she gained insight into an abstract world of geometrical conditions and guidelines.