MODERNA MUSEET : Hilma af Klint - A Pioneer of Abstraction
 
 
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MODERNA MUSEET : Hilma af Klint - A Pioneer of Abstraction

 
 
 
Location Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Photographer GoSee / Frank Schmitz

Swans, lines, circles. The art of abstraction. Hilma af Klint at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet

Painter Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 – October 21, 1944) is currently said to be the new Swedish discovery in painting. Today she is officially considered a pioneer of abstract art. Indeed, Hilma is held in the same high regard as her contemporaries Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky. Irony of fate.

Following a normal childhood with summers in the countryside and subsequent move to Stockholm with her family, Hilma studied at the...

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