About the work of...Hilma Af Klint

Activity

Great artists, plain and simple. February 2024

1st floor | Library

General public

17 February 2024

Workshop visit with vermouth around the work of artists from the collections. Guided tour by Explicarte

On this occasion, we will direct our attention to the extraordinary artist Hilma Af Klint. She was born on October 26, 1862 in Solna, a municipality north of Stockholm, in Sweden. Daughter of Mathilda Sonntag and Admiral Victor af Klint, the young woman grew up alongside her three siblings within a wealthy family with broad intellectual interests. From an early age, Hilma had access to her parents' large library and immersed herself in readings that awakened her curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

Five years before Kandinski published 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art', a book in which he laid the foundations of non-figurative art, Swedish painter Hilma af Klint had already created her first abstract paintings, thus anticipating one of the most important artistic movements of the early twentieth century.

Hilma af Klint was part of the first generation of European women who were able to study in art schools, but, despite acquiring success as a naturalist painter that allowed her to live from her landscape and portrait paintings, the fact of being a woman left her out of the artistic groups of the time. Although they had shared classrooms, painters continued to believe that creation was an activity that belonged to them and women should dedicate their time to other tasks such as, for example, forming a family.

Information

Opening hours: 12:00 hours
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Mediation, Art and Artists, Guided visit
Modality: At the museum

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Great artists, plain and simple

General public , 22.01.2022 - 19.12.2026

Workshop visit with vermouth around the work of female artists from the collections. Guided tour by ExplicarteTraditionally, women have been considered second-class citizens in the world of culture. This position was based on a statistic supported by a very limited number of women who had stood out in the field of literature, thought, and the plastic arts. This idea crumbles in the face of a simple consideration, and that is the reduced opportunities they had to develop their personal talents.

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