Hilma af Klint - a feminist - at Guggenheims

People around the world know about Hilma's paintings now.

She forbid the relatives to show them for anyone until 20 years after her death. 

Why? 

Maybe because of that Rudolf Steiner, the leader of Anthroposophy didn't like them. 

But he may have seen Hilma as a competitor. 

She had then thoughts of  to burn them. 

But she was also a proud woman. 




She was the first to paint abstract art in Europe. She was before Kandinsky. 

But she thought she was instructed of invisible teachers. 

Nowadays many see her as a painter of her time. 

A time were electricity and the telegraph were new. And if invisible signals could be send, why could not other beings send messages to us?

In the beginning of the 20-century there were many esoteric streems. 

And some were lead by women as Blavatsky. 

Maybe that was a way for woman to get recognition. 

Not many women were known to be great artist though. 

Maybe it was an unconscious side of herself that painted?

We will probably never know for sure, and the paintings are in any way  treasures for our eyes; 

They will be exhibited in Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in the future.




I live nearby were her atelje once stood. 
And it strikes me how nice it would be to have a talk with her...





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