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- ISBN 9789189069237
- Weight: 2670g
- Dimensions: 10 x 13mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Stolpe Publishing
- Publication City/Country: SE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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At an early age, Hilma af Klint developed an interest in spiritualism – a religious inclination and philosophical outlook that constituted an important part of the European zeitgeist in the second half of the nineteenth century. Together with four other women, she was part of the group The Five. The members of the group acted as mediums and believed that they received messages from the spirit world. In this first volume of Hilma af Klint’s Catalogue Raisonné, the fifteen sketchbooks they produced between 1895 and 1910 are presented. Together, they constitute an important starting point for Hilma af Klint’s abstract painting and provide a background to what would later lead to her most important series: The Paintings for the Temple.
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a pioneer of art who made a turn away from visible to spiritual reality. Already in 1906, she had made abstract paintings. Hilma af Klint perceived a spiritual dimension and envisioned contexts beyond the perceptions of the ordinary senses. When painting, she alleged that she was in contact with beings of higher levels of consciousness that spoke and conveyed messages through her. Like her, later, modernist contemporaries were influenced by the spiritual movements of spiritualism, theosophy and later anthroposophy. Her mission was to understand and communicate the various dimensions of human existence.
