Hilma af Klint's works have taken the international art world by storm, more than a hundred years after their creation. At the turn of the 20th century, the new spiritual and social movements of Theosophy, then Anthroposophy, inspired the pioneers of modernism and abstract art Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich and Hilma af Klint. What was the zeitgeist that inspired such an artistic explosion? In 2018, the exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future introduced the general public to the mystical abstract masterpieces of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Based on a seminar held at the Guggenheim Museum at the opening of this renowned exhibition, this volume brings together essays by contributors to the seminar, as well as reproductions of works, archival photographs and images from af Klint's journals.
