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Hilma af Klint

(Sweden, 1862-1944)
Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 330 - 7 110 EUR
5 510 - 7 340 USD
Hammer price
130 000 SEK
Purchasing info
Hilma af Klint
(Sweden, 1862-1944)

Winter scene from Kungsträdgården in Stockholm

Signed H. af Klint and indistinctly dated. Verso inscribed Hilma. Oil on canvas 23.5 x 30.5 cm.

Provenance

Mrs. Ida Haverman (as a gift from the artist, her sister); Hilma af Klint (returned to her through her sister Ida Haverman's will after her death); Mr. G. Nordberg (as a gift from Hilma af Klint in gratitude after he helped with the deceased estate left by her sister Ida Haverman); by descent.

Artist

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish painter, theosophist and pioneer within abstract painting, and already in 1906 had created an abstract visual language. This was several years before Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevitj who are still considered the forerunners of abstract art in the 20th century. Klint began her artist training at the Technical School in Stockholm (now Konstfack), where she also took lessons in portrait painting. After her studies, Klint acquired her own studio by Kungsträdgården where she painted and exhibited landscapes in naturalistic styles.
It was during a trip to Switzerland where she met Rudolf Steiner and was taken by his anthroposophical ideas and thereafter developed a strong interest for the occult. During séances, she received messages, which she transformed into abstract paintings. In 1986 Klint showed her abstract work for the first time in the exhibition, ‘The Spiritual in Art’, Abstract painting 1890-85, in Los Angelese. This exhibition came to be Hilma af Klint’s international breakthrough.
With a solo exhibition at the Modern Museum in Stockholm, Klint started a new phase of her artistic career. This became the most wrote about exhibition in the history of the Modern Museum and made Klint into a well-known name worldwide. Since 1972 her abstract work has been managed by the Hilma af Klint Foundation. The Modern Museum in Stockholm has a room dedicated to Hilma af Klint in their permanent exhibition, where the works shown are regularly rotated. She is even represented by the National Museum, the Royal Library, the Maritime Museum, the Nordic Museum and Uppsala’s University Library.

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