Hilma af Klint 1862 – 1944 Presentation by Dr Michael Paraskos Madame (Helena) Blavatsky (1831-1891) William Fuld Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891) Annie Besant (1847-1933) Vague intellectual pleasure Suddenly Frightened Explosive Anger Angry Jealousy Desperation for a drink Two people at an accident in the street Two people at an accident in the street • Sympathy • Love of humanity Listening to the music of Richard Wagner In 1912 these artists founded the Blue Rider Group in Munich Wassily Kandinsky Portrait of Gabriele Münter 1905 Marianne von Werefkin Self Portrait 1910 Alexej von Jawlensky Gabriele Münter Portrait of Wassily Kandinsky 1906 Self Portrait 1905 Franz Marc Joins the group in 1910 Wassily Kandinsky Cover of the Blue Rider Almanac Published 1912 Gabriele Münter The Yellow House 1908 Marianne von Werefkin Loneliness 1912 Franz Marc Blue Horse 1911 Wassily Kandinsky The Blue Rider 1903 Wassily Kandinsky The Rider 1911 Wassily Kandinsky The First Abstract Watercolour 1910 Wassily Kandinsky Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) Published 1912 “The spiritual life, to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement forwards and upwards.” Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) published in 1912 “The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area. “In every segment of the triangle are artists. Each one of them who can see beyond the limits of his segment is a prophet to those about him, and helps the advance of the obstinate whole.” Wassily Kandinsky Hilma af Klint 1862 – 1944 Studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm August Malmström Väva vadmal oil on canvas 1882 57 x 877 cm August Malmström The old and the young of Sweden oil on canvas 1894 57 x 877 cm Georg von Rosen Erik XIV and Karin MånsdoLer oil on canvas 1871 Ernst Josephson Landscape with Stream 1884 24×33cm Prince Eugen The Forest oil on canvas, 1892 150 x 100.5 cm. Caspar David Friedrich Early Snow in the Forest oil on canvas, c.1827 150 x 100.5 cm. Edvard Munch The Lonely Ones Woodcut print on paper 1899 Caspar David Friedrich Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon oil on canvas, c.1820 Prince Eugen The Forest oil on canvas 1892 150 x 100.5 cm. Hilma af Klint Sunlit Pine Forest oil on canvas 1903 109 x 82 cm ‘In all the time since they have been the equals of the young men in the academy school, has there been a single artist among all these feeble women? [...] Manhood is what is needed, because art has to be creative; and passive, receptive women understand nothing of style when it comes to making it’ Carl Larsson Carl Larsson Hide and Seek Watercolour 1898 Carl Larsson Suzanne and Another Watercolour 1901 ‘In all the time since they have been the equals of the young men in the academy school, has there been a single artist among all these feeble women? [...] Manhood is what is needed, because art has to be creative; and passive, receptive women understand nothing of style when it comes to making it’ Carl Larsson Carl Larsson Azalea Watercolour 1906 Sigrid Hjertén Figure Composition Oil on canvas 1918 Hilma af Klint Sunlit Pine Forest oil on canvas 1903 109 x 82 cm Hilma af Klint Spring Landscape – Scene from the Bay of Lomma 1892 Oil on canvas 34.5 × 100 cm Hilma af Klint Coastal Landscape 1899 Af Klint founded a spiritualist meeting group with the artists Anna Cassel, Cornelia Cedarburg, Sigrid Hedman and Mathilda Nilsson in 1889. They called themselves The Five. Anna Cassel Mountain Landscape 1889 Hilma af Klint Oak Tree oil on canvas 1907 139.7 x 200.7 cm Hilma af Klint 1862 – 1944 Studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm Hilma af Klint 1862 – 1944 Studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm “Amaliel offered me a work and I answered immediately Yes. This was the large work, that I was to perform in my life.” Hilma af Klint Hilma af Klint Group I, Primordial Chaos, No. 16 (Grupp 1, Urkaos, nr 16), 1906-1907 from The WU/Rose Series (Serie WU/Rosen) Oil on canvas, 53 x 37 cm Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest, No. 3., Adulthood, Group IV, 1907 Tempera on paper mounted on canvas 315 x 235 cm Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest, No. 7., Adulthood, Group IV, 1907 Tempera on paper mounted on canvas 315 x 235 cm Hilma af Klint Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17 (Grupp IX/SUW, Svanen, nr 17), 1915 from The SUW/UW Series (Serie SUW/UW) Oil on canvas, 150.5 x 151 cm Hilma af Klint Group IX/UW, NO 25, The Dove No 1, 1907 Tempera on paper mounted on canvas 315 x 235 cm Hilma af Klint Group V, The Seven-Pointed Star, No. 1n (Grupp V, Sjustjärnan, nr 1), 1908 from The WUS/Seven-Pointed Star Series (Serie WUS/Sjustjärnan) Tempera, gouache and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 62.5 x 76 cm The Hilma af Klint Tree of Knowledge, No. 5 (Kunskapens träd, nr 5), 1915 from The W Series (Serie W) Watercolor, gouache, graphite and metallic paint on paper 18 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches (45.8 x 29.5 cm) Hilma af Klint Tree of Knowledge, No. 5 (Kunskapens träd, nr 5), 1915 from The W Series (Serie W) Watercolor, gouache, graphite and metallic paint on paper 18 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches (45.8 x 29.5 cm) Hilma af Klint Oak Tree oil on canvas 1907 139.7 x 200.7 cm Hilma af Klint, HaK133, Series W The Tree of Knowledge no. 1, 1913. Hilma af Klint, HaK134, Series W The Tree of Knowledge no. 2, 1913. Hilma af Klint The Tree of Knowledge no. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7a. 1913/1915 Hilma af Klint, HaK134, Series W The Tree of Knowledge no. 2, 1913. Finnur Magnússon, 1781-1847 Yggdrasill 1824 Hilma af Klint, HaK134, Series W The Tree of Knowledge no. 2, 1913. Yggdrasil in the 17th-century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 Georg von Rosen Erik XIV and Karin Månsdotter oil on canvas 1871 Prince Eugen The Forest oil on canvas, 1892 150 x 100.5 cm. Hilma af Klint, HaK134, Series W The Tree of Knowledge no. 2, 1913. Rudolf Steiner 1861 - 1925 Hilma af Klint Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17 (Grupp IX/SUW, Svanen, nr 17), 1915 from The SUW/UW Series (Serie SUW/UW) Oil on canvas, 150.5 x 151 cm Hilma af Klint No. 1 (Nr 1) from The Atom Series (Serie Atom), 1917 Watercolor on paper, 27 x 25 cm Hilma af Klint Untitled, 1920 from On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees (Vid betraktande av blommor och träd) Watercolor on paper, 17.9 x 25 cm
