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Hilma af Klint 1862-1944
Group IV number 3 1907
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Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 3, Youth, Group IV, 1907, 321 x 240 cm, 126.38 x 94.49 in., © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk [+]
Swedish painter.
It was not until 1986, with the exhibition The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, that Hilma af Klint’s work was finally acknowledged in art history and by the general public. Her paintings were shown alongside those of Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, but when one looks at the dates of her first abstract works, it appears that the painter was in fact ahead of her time and could not have been influenced by artists considered as pioneers in the field of abstract art. Her solitary and unusual career is strongly related to a spiritual and esoteric development. Only a small group of insiders was aware of her “mystical” paintings, and the artist herself was convinced that the general public was unable to understand them.
