Hilma af klint

Last updated on June 9, 2023

b. 1862

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[[Georgiana Houghton]] did nonrepresentational watercolors. People ridiculed her when her work was exhibited.

started with single letters then moved on to art

Georgiana houghton

a 19th century spiritualist painter; someone to research further

Maybe that’s why [[Hilma af Klint considered St. George her alter ego]]?

biographical details [[Hilma af Klint was queer]] [[Hilma af Klint was an aristocrat]] [[Hilma af Klint began having visions as...

This might be influenced by her childhood church, the Church of St. Nicholas in Stockholm, which had a statue of...

This story, which includes “mock suns” and “wheels” of light or “orbs” sounds an awful lot like religious [[UFO]] experiences...

the “af” is analagous to a “von” in the name

she never married and her biographer describes her as having two great loves in her life (both women)

Hilma af klint

b. 1862

natical elements in her work: reef-like dashed white lines (1907 paintings) made an inventory of lighthouses (1906) cartographic symbols in...

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