Books

Monographs

Mänskligheten kommer att förundras: Hilma af Klint. En biografi

2021

Author: Julia Voss
Publisher: Albert Bonniers Förlag
ISBN: 9789100182649

Hilma af Klint – »Die Menschheit in Erstaunen versetzen«: Biographie

2021

Author: Julia Voss
Publisher: S. Fischer Verlage
ISBN: 9783103973679

A biography based on the author’s research into the life of Hilma af Klint and the time in which she lived and worked. Originally published in German and translated into Swedish.

Hilma af Klint – Att se är att inse
Hilma af Klint – Seeing is Believing

2020

ISBN Swe: 978-91-89069-08-4
ISBN Eng: 978-91-89069-18-3

An anthology based on a seminar at the Goethe-Institut, in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen at the Serpentine Galleries, London, 2016.

Hilma af Klint: Konsten att se det osynliga
Hilma af Klint: The Art of Seeing the Invisible

2020

Editors: Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage
ISBN Swe: 9789189069077
ISBN Eng: 9789189069176

A book based on a seminar held in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction, at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2013.

Hilma af Klint: Tidsandans visionär
Hilma af Klint: Visionary

2019

Editors: Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage
Publisher: Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN Swe: 978-91-98523-70-6
ISBN Eng: 978-91-63972-03-4

An anthology based on a seminar held at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, 2018.

Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods

2018

Editor: Christine Burgin
Language: English
ISBN: 9780226591933

The first ever publication of some of Hilma af Klint’s notes translated into English, including the “Blue Books”.

Enheten bortom mångfalden: två perspektiv på Hilma af Klints verk

1999

Authors: Gurli Lindén, Anna Maria Svensson
Publisher: Rosengårdens förlag och studier
ISBN: 9789197288347
Language: Swedish

Anna Maria Svensson positions Hilma af Klint in line with her contemporary modernists and demonstrates how af Klint was influenced by the esoteric currents of the time. Gurli Lindén focuses on af Klint’s previously unpublished writings, comprising her comments and the messages she received from the spiritual masters.

I Describe the Way and Meanwhile I Am Proceeding Along it: A Short Introduction on Method and Intention in Hilma af Klint’s Work from an Esoteric Perspective

1998

Author: Gurli Lindén
Publisher: Rosengårdens förlag och studier
Language: English
ISBN: 9789197288323

A book describing the background of Hilma af Klint’s art with a focus on how the artist regarded her life work, paintings and notes as a commission related to Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. 

Vägen till templet: Hilma af Klint: förberedelsetiden 1896–1906

1996

Author: Gurli Lindén
Publisher: Rosengårdens förlag och studier
Language: Swedish
ISBN: 9789197288309

A book exploring Hilma af Klint’s work with a focus on her time of preparation, 1896–1906, and the notes she created during this period.

Hilma af Klint: ockult målarinna och abstrakt pionjär

1989

Author: Åke Fant
Publisher: Raster förlag
Language: Swedish
ISBN: 9187214105

Åke Fant’s book was published at a time when Hilma af Klint was not as familiar to the general public as she is today. Nevertheless, it is a valid effort, comprising an exhaustive description of her artistic practice. Reissued in 2021.

Exhibition Catalogues

Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings

2021

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Editors: Sue Cramer, Nicholas Chambers
Language: English

A book published in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2021 and the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, 2021 – 2022.

Hilma af Klint: konstnär, forskare, medium

2020

Moderna Museet, Malmö
Editors: Iris Müller-Westermann, Milena Høgsberg
Language: Swedish
ISBN: 978-91-984571-1-7

An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö, 2020.

Hilma af Klint: Artist, Researcher, Medium

2020

Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Publisher: HATJE CANTZ
Language: English
ISBN: 9783775747400

An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö, 2020.

A New Age: The Spiritual in Art

2019

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art

World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz

2019

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Editors: Karin Althaus, Matthias Mühling, Sebastian Schneider
Language: English
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
ISBN: 9783777431574

World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz was published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2018–2019. The book explores Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884), Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) and Emma Kunz (1892–1963) who, independently of each other, developed an abstract idiom before abstract art was invented.

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

2018

Editor: Tracey Bashkoff
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 9780892075430

An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2018–2019.

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen

2016

The Serpentine Galleries
Editors: Emma Enderby, Melissa Blanchflower, Melissa Larner
Publisher: Koenig Books
ISBN: 9783863358945

A catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, comprising essays on the art of Hilma af Klint and her role as an abstract pioneer.

Hilma af Klint: abstrakt pionjär
Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

2013

Moderna Museet
Editors: Iris Müller-Westermann, Jo Widoff
Language: Swedish
ISBN: 9789186243470
Language: English
ISBN: 9789186243487

The Legacy of Hilma af Klint: Nine Contemporary Responses

2013

Editors: Daniel Birnbaum, Ann-Sofi Noring
Language: English
ISBN: 9789186243562

A book produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the work of Hilma af Klint at the 2013 Venice Biennale, including the first ever publication of af Klint’s notebook “Blumen, Moose, Flechten” (Flowers, Mosses, Lichen). The second part of the catalogue presents nine contemporary artists’ response to Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre.

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944): une modernité révélée : catalogue de l’exposition éponyme présentée du 11 avril au 27 juillet 2008 au Centre culturel suédois

2008

Centre culturel suédois, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
Editors: Anna Maria Svensson; Pascal Rousseau
Language: French
ISBN: 9789152009666

3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing

2005

The Drawing Centre, New York
Editors: Catherine de Zegher, Hendel Teicher
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300108262

A catalogue to accompany the exhibition 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing, at the Drawing Centre in New York, 2005, exploring the ideas and drawings of Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz (1892–1963) and Agnes Martin (1912– 2004), whose impact on modern abstraction was immense.

Mod Lyset

2004

Hilma af Klint: målningarna till templet: temppelimaalaukset

1999

Liljevalchs konsthall, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Language: Swedish/Finnish
ISBN: 9186828940

An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the solo exhibition Hilma af Klint: målningarna till templet: temppelimaalaukset, at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, 1999 and Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, 2000.

Allteftersom jag beskriver vägen går jag vägen framåt – Hilma af Klint

1998

Authors: Pia Thunholm, Gustaf af Klint, Gurli Lindén
Exhibition Catalogue: Södertälje Konsthall (04.04-10.05.1998), Skövde Konsthall (18.10-15.11.1998)
Publisher: Ljungbergs Tryckeri AB, Södertälje, 1998
Description: 94 pages
Language: Swedish
ISBN: 91-630-6565-7

An exhibition catalogue produced to accompany the 1998 travelling exhibition Hilma af Klint.

Hilma af Klints hemliga bilder
Hilma af Klintin Salaisia Kuvia
The Secret Pictures of Hilma af Klint

1988

Author: Åke Fant
Exhibition catalogue: Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki (06.08-02.10 1988), PS1 New York (15.01-12.03.1989), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (08.04-07.05.1989), Galleri F15, Moss (03.06-25.07.1989)

Publisher: Nordic Arts Centre’s exhibition catalogue 1988 no 3
Language: Parallel texts in Swedish, Finnish and English
ISBN: 9519605169

Konkret i Norden: 1907–1960
Pohjoinen konkretismi: 1907–1960
Norræn Konkretlist: 1907–1960
Nordic Concrete Art: 1907–1960

1987

Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki
ISBN: 9519605118

A catalogue published in conjunction with the travelling exhibition Nordic Concrete Art, at Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Norrköpings konstmuseum, Sweden; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; and Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.

The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985

1986

Editor: Maurice Tuchman
Publisher: Abbeville Press, New York
Language: English
ISBN: 0789200562

A catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, presenting new perspectives on abstract art.

Miscellaneous

Evolution und Struktur: Universelle Gesetze und Gesetzmässigkeiten der Systeme Emma Kunz und Hilma af Klint

2011

Author: Johanna Katharina Binder-Hürzeler
Language: German
Publisher: Brunner Medien AG
ISBN: 9783037270349