Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI: Late Watercolours (1922-1941)

Gathering af Klint’s 1920s works, the sixth book of Hilma af Klint’s Catalogue Raisonné centres the works she made after her mother’s death and her abandonment of geometric abstraction.

In the 1920s, Hilma af Klint spent extended periods in Dornach, Switzerland, where Rudolf Steiner had established an international center for the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum. At the Goetheanum, af Klint took part in the center’s rich cultural life. Among other things, she studied Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory of color. In 1922, at the age of 60, she completely abandoned her geometrical way of working for the “wet-on-wet” watercolor method inspired by anthroposophy, and developed by Steiner and his circle. An example of this is her series On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees from 1922. Most of the series presented in this, the sixth volume of Hilma af Klint’s catalogue raisonné, have no titles.

Kurt Almqvist is the President of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

Daniel Birnbaum is an art critic and artistic director of Acute Art in London and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

• Artist Hilma af Klint
• Dimensions 24.9 x 31.9 x 4.4 cm
• Material Responsibly sourced paper
• ISBN 9789189069275