Foreign Rights

A radi­cal force, ahead of her time – Hilma af Klint, pioneer of abstract pain­ting
She crea­ted more than 1,000 pain­tings, drawings, and water-colors, revo­lu­tio­ni­zing art. A forerun­ner to Kandinsky and Mon­drian, the Swe­dish pain­ter Hilma af Klint crea­ted abstract works with deeply striking forms and colors. She was a fier­cely inde­pen­dent and deter­mi­ned woman who refu­sed to bow to the rules of the male-domi­na­ted art world. Klint knew she was ahead of her time: at the age of seventy, she decreed that her works should only be exhi­bi­ted 20 years after her death. The redis­co­very of her work has cau­sed a sen­sa­tion in the art world over the past years. In this deeply rese­ar­ched account of Klint’s life, Julia Voss recounts the uncon­ven­tio­nal life of this excep­tio­nal artist, des­troy­ing cli­chés and myths while pain­ting a por­trait of an era in which art, as well as poli­tics, was set into tur­moil.