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‘It’s a hostile takeover’: Hilma af Klint’s family fight ‘plundering’ deal for her art

Relatives say involving gallerist David Zwirner would lead to ‘commercialisation’ of Swedish painter’s work

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2024

What did the critics who trashed Georgia O’Keeffe have in common? See if you can guess

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2023

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life review

The premise for this new exhibition is a “weird” one indeed, said Laura Freeman in The Times. On the face of it, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) have little in common: he was a cosmopolitan modernist, she a visionary mystic; he…

The Week · Apr 28, 2023

Culture in London to book for spring 2023: from Portraits of Dogs to Fast X and A Little Life

Spring has sprung and with it comes a new raft of fantastic culture in London. Here’s our essential guide of what to do and see this season

Evening Standard · Mar 24, 2023

Hilma af Klint, a painter at the forefront of abstraction

Can an exhibition of work by a little-known Swedish artist change our understanding of avant-garde art? The history of early 20th-century art seems to be sufficiently set that the spectral appearance of an artist on the periphery of Europe wouldn’t change it in any way. However, the phenomenon of Hilma…

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023

Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022

Hilma review – Sweden’s mystical outsider artist gets feelgood biopic

Film candyman Lasse Hallström has delivered a cloying but well performed version of the life of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022

Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art

Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022