Puzzle 500 Piece - Hilma af Klint - No. 7, Adulthood

 An artist both of her time and well ahead of it, Hilma af Klint was a rare original.

Years before such Modernist pioneers as Piet Mondrian and Vasily Kandinsky dipped their brushes into abstraction, af Klint was breaking ground with colorful, energetic compositions that veered away from the figurative.

Influenced by her experiences with Spiritualism, she attempted to reconcile art, science, and religious pluralism through her brilliant paintings.

In her lifetime she primarily exhibited her more conventional artwork and ultimately decided that the world wasn’t ready for her abstract magnum opus, ​The Paintings for the Temple​.

She decreed in her will that her work not be shown until 20 years after her death.

Over a century after their creation, these masterpieces have garnered international acclaim, and the artist’s star is on the rise.

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Hilma af Klint (Swedish: 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944)

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 contact the "High Masters", often through seances.

Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

Af Klint's work can be understood in the wider context of the modernist search for new forms in artistic, spiritual, political, and scientific systems at the beginning of the twentieth century.