Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky and the invention of abstraction in the 20th century
During his lifetime, Wassily Kandinsky was already regarded as a pioneer and shooting star of abstract art, his paintings were shown in the world's most important museums and his paintings and writings continue to influence generations and debates to this day. But while Kandinsky's star was rising, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who began to paint non-representationally at the same time as him, remained in the shadows of art history for decades.
In their book, Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum bring the two exceptional artists, whose paths crossed in 1916, together. On this visually stunning journey, we experience how af Klint and Kandinsky pushed the creative boundaries of their time, drew inspiration from the spiritual and continued to reinvent themselves with their art well into old age. Independent and yet parallel lives that revolve around one fixed point: the all-changing power of art.
