Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta presented plans for an exhibition space dedicated to af Klint in Järna, south of Stockholm, with estimated building costs of €6 to 7
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Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to con…
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culture · Swedish artist (1862–1944) · female painter · artist · painter · also Hilma af Klint, Hilma Af Klint, Klint
Born 26 October 1862 · Died 21 October 1944 · Q436267
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1970· 1 entry
Her paintings were offered as a gift to Moderna Museet i Stockholm, but the donation was declined
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1944· 2 entries
Died 1944-10-21.
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Hilma af Klint died at age 81 in Djursholm, Sweden, after a traffic accident
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1928· 1 entry
At the World Conference on Spiritual Science in London, for which Kloppers was a member of the organizing committee
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1920· 1 entry
Met Steiner again at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, the headquarters of the Anthroposophical Society
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1908· 2 entries
Af Klint met Rudolf Steiner
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Met Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the Anthroposophical Society, who was visiting Stockholm
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1906· 1 entry
At the age of 44, af Klint painted her first series of abstract paintings
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1889· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (1882–1889).
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1880· 1 entry
Af Klint's younger sister Hermina died
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-10-26.
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