The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint

Hilma Af Klint

ISBN 10: 1644230690 / ISBN 13: 9781644230695

Edité par Thames & Hudson Aug 2022, 2022

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Neuware -Artist Philipp Deines traces the story of now world-famous af Klint's unique life and groundbreaking oeuvre through five chapters featuring her development as an artist, her family background, and her relationship to the spiritual. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her, this is a story of the strength it took af Klint to continue as an artist against all odds. Beautifully drawn, brightly colored, and well-researched, this graphic novel is a new way of looking at the story of an artist. Referencing Julia Voss's new biography of af Klint, Deines presents an accessible and lively introduction for many ages. Biography, art history, and contemporary narrative style merge and complement each other in these magnificent visual worlds.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint
• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Aug 2022
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1644230690
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781644230695
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 303 L x 215 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 303 millimètres de largeur par 215 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 732 grammes

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Synopsis

A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novelfeatures key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstractpainting Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Long underrecognized, af Klint hasbeen amid a sensational rediscovery that continues to take art audiences bystorm.

Artist Philipp Deines traces the story of now world-famous afKlint’s unique life and groundbreaking oeuvre through five chaptersfeaturing her development as an artist, her family background, and herrelationship to the spiritual. Highlighting how she came to her distinctivepaintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her, this is a storyof the strength it took af Klint to continue as an artist against all odds.

Beautifully drawn, brightly colored, and well researched, this graphic novelis a new way of looking at the story of an artist. Referencing JuliaVoss’s new biography of af Klint, Deines presents an accessible and livelyintroduction for many ages. Biography, art history, and contemporary narrativestyle merge and complement each other in this magnificent visualworld.

À propos des auteurs

Philipp Deines is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. In 2015, he published Behind the White Cube (Merve Verlag) with Julia Voss. In 2020, he received the Berlin Comic Scholarship and his work was exhibited in the Museum for Communication Berlin. In 2021, his work was exhibited at Grisebach in Berlin in the exhibition Stu-stu-stu-studioline. The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint (2022) is his first graphic novel. He lives and works in Berlin.

Julia Voss is an art historian, art critic, and curator who was the visual arts editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for ten years. She learned Swedish in order to write the best-selling Hilma af Klint: A Biography (2022), which has been translated into four languages and was short-listed for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Though her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich. Af Klint was born in Solna, outside Stockholm, and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1882 to 1888. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 2018 survey of af Klint's work was the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to the artist, offering an unprecedented opportunity to experience af Klint's long-underrecognized artistic achievements.