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SUMMARY:Hilma af Klint: Painter and Revolutionary Mystic - Dr Julia Voss
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CONTACT:Dr Alex Gushurst-Moore
DESCRIPTION:About\n\nThe Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was
  forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which 
 she had been trained to produce a body of radical\, abstract works the lik
 es of which had never been seen before. Today\, it is widely accepted that
  af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe.\n\
 nBut this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female art
 ist\, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic\, thrilled by the newe
 st developments in science\, deeply concerned about social change and refo
 rms\, in exchange with spiritual forces\, a passionate lover and futurist 
 thinker. Af Klint even came to England once: In 1928 she traveled to Londo
 n to exhibit her paintings at the “World Conference on Spiritual Science
 ”\, organized by the English branch of the Anthroposophical Society.\n\n
 Well before Kandinsky\, Mondrian\, and Malevich declared themselves the in
 ventors of abstraction\, af Klint was working in a nonrepresentational mod
 e\, producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audien
 ces today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in 
 New York attracted more than 600 000 visitors\, making it the most-attende
 d show in the history of the institution.\n\nThe lecture will lead through
  Hilma af Klint's life and work - questions and commentaries from the audi
 ence are more than welcome!\n\nSpeaker\n\nJulia Voss is a German art histo
 rian\, art critic\, curator\, and the author of “Hilma af Klint. A Biogr
 aphy”\, just published by Chicago University Press. Inspired by her firs
 t encounter with the artist’s work in 2008\, Voss set out to learn Swedi
 sh and research af Klint’s life – not only who the artist was but what
  drove and inspired her. The biography was a bestseller in Germany and on 
 the shortlist of the prestigious Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair in 2020.\n
 \nUntil 2017 Voss was the art editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
 . In 2015 she was appointed honorary professor at Leuphana University\, L
 üneburg. For her PhD in art history and history of science she traveled r
 egularly to Cambridge in order to study the Darwin papers and library. Her
  book “Darwin’s Pictures. Views of Evolutionary Theory\, 1837-1874” 
 was published by Yale University Press in 2010.\n\nTickets: https://www.ev
 entbrite.com/e/hilma-af-klint-painter-and-revolutionary-mystic-tickets-439
 606834877
LOCATION:Buckingham House Lecture Theatre\, Murray Edwards College
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