Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume I: Spiritualistic Drawings (1896-1905)

Name: Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume I: Spiritualistic Drawings (1896-1905)
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By Daniel Birnbaum and Kurt Almqvist

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This volume presents the spiritualistic drawings of Hilma af Klint from 1896 to 1905, capturing a decade of intense exploration that shaped her future artistic achievements. It documents her role in the group 'The Five', who practised spiritualist séances and automatic drawing grounded in theosophy and other esoteric beliefs, resulting in symbolic, geometric, and biological imagery unique to her work.
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Ideal for readers interested in early abstract art, spirituality in art, and those studying theintersection of theosophy and creativity in late 19th- and early 20th-century European culture.

How af Klint's early drawings rose from spiritual practices conducted with friends: the first volume in a beautiful new catalogue raisonné

How af Klint's early drawings rose from spiritual practices conducted with friends: the first volume in a beautiful new catalogue raisonné

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The drawings in this first volume of a new catalogue raisonné represent an intense ten-year period of Hilma af Klint's (1862-1944) life that would lay the foundation for her later achievements. In 1896, af Klint and four other women formed 'The Five', a group steeped in the spiritualist beliefs permeating Europe at that time, including theosophy, Rosicrucianism and other strains of liberal religious thought. From 1896 to 1907, The Five engaged in a daily systematic method of spiritual experimentation. During séances, Hilma af Klint drew automatic spiritual sketches based on the messages that the medium (not always the same member) communicated from the spirits the group summoned. The elaborate system of symbols, geometry and biological imagery that characterise her work all find their origin during this period.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789189069237

Publisher: Stolpe Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 January 2021

Country: Sweden

Imprint: Stolpe Publishing

Illustration: 350 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 2670g

Pages: 220

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Arts & Culture Daniel Birnbaum Kurt Almqvist Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kurt Almqvist is the President of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Daniel Birnbaum is an art critic and artistic director of Acute Art in London and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.