021 Despite having created some of the most important works in the history of abstract art, Hilma af Klint remained largely unknown for most of her life. Before Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich, who are still recognized by history as precursors of Abstract Art, Hilma af Klint had been creating paintings for years that stepped out of figuration, suggesting a different reality apart from the natural one. Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist born in Solna in 1862. In 1882 she began her career studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, one of the few places in Europe where women were allowed to study. During her formative years she learned the traditional techniques of painting but also became interested in spirituality and the occult. Those themes would be central to her later work for the rest of her life. Hilma af Klint attributed her artistic inspiration to divine dictation. In 1906 she began to work on a more pronounced development of her work dedicated to abstraction. It was at this time that she began to create a series of abstract paintings which she called “The Painting for the Temple”. A work unlike anything done before in the art world. One could say: a work ahead of its time. Retrato de Hilma af Klint por Joe Joyce.
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