Exhibition poster from 2014, featuring the work, Mannaåldern, De tio største, no 7 , (1907), by the Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), which Louisiana exhibited in 2014. Klint never showed her abstract works publicly during her lifetime , but only her figurative ones. “I had no idea what the pictures were supposed to represent. Still, I worked quickly and safely, without changing a single brushstroke,“ explained Hilma af Klint in her notes and diaries.
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Hilma af Klint has not taken up much space in art history, although she can be listed as one of the pioneers of abstract art. Her extensive work is created in a spiritual space inspired by e.g. theosophical and anthroposophical currents, where she links inner experience and symbolic language.
