Collection: Hilma af Klint

Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is among the pioneers of abstract art in Europe, painting in a fully abstract language in Stockholm in the middle of the first decade of the 20th century. She graduated with honors from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, started her career with portraits and landscapes, and then turned toward spiritualism, theosophy, and the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, looking entirely toward the invisible. Out of that blend of academic training, spiritual searching, and scientific curiosity about botany and mathematics came a visual language in which spirals, lilies, roses, egg shapes, and stepped triangles speak of spiritual evolution and the four ages of human life. She worked in oil, tempera on paper, and watercolor, in a palette of deep blue, cadmium yellow, orange, ochre, lilac, and soft rose. At Art Punch, you’ll find her work reproduced as high-quality prints on art paper or stretched cotton canvas.