19th Century
19th Century
Hilma af Klint
A Visionary Beyond Her Time: The Life and Art of Hilma af Klint Hilma af Klint, a Swedish artist born in Solna in 1862, remains one of the most compelling and historically significant figures to emerge from the dawn of abstract art. For decades, her groundbreaking paintings lay largely unseen, deliberately withheld from public view by the artist herself who believed the world wasn’t yet ready to comprehend their profound meaning. Today, af Klint is celebrated as a pioneer, an explorer of inner worlds whose vibrant and symbolic canvases predate the better-known abstractions of Kandinsky, Mond…
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An Interactive Constellation
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Hilma af Klint's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
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Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.