Hilma af Klint icons (part 3)

[cimorene]

After I watched that documentary about the women designers of the Bauhaus and learned that they were treated very poorly by all the faculty and that Paul Klee and Wasily Kandinsky didn't want to teach fine art to women, believing that they were "incapable" of it (because fine art needs creative genius, unlike crafts ...the exact false dichotomy opposed by the Arts & Crafts movement in the Victorian era), I got annoyed every time I saw my icons of their art in my icon browsing dialogue. So finally I have replaced all of them with icons of abstract art by Hilma af Klint and Gunta Stölzl (more on her later).

Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944) was a Swedish painter and mystic who created some of the earliest abstract paintings in Western art - a considerable body of her work predates the first abstract compositions by eg Kandinsky and Mondrian. She belonged to a group of women called "The Five" who developed a complex structure of mystic beliefs influenced by Theosophy and stressing the use of séance. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)

Most of her better-known paintings are enormous: see exhibition photos at for example The Guggenheim, Stockholm's Moderna Museet, Artblart.

Free to good homes. Modification is fine. Credit and comments appreciated, not required. I posted Hilma af Klint icons a few years ago already: pt.1 and pt. 2.








1, 6, 12 The Ten Largest, Nr. 2, Childhood (1907)
2, 9 The Ten Largest, Nr. 1, Childhood (1907)
3, 10 The Large Figure Paintings, No. 5 Group 3 (1907)
4, 8, 11, 15 The Ten Largest, Nr. 4, Youth (1907)
5 The Ten Largest, nr. 7, Adulthood (1907)
7, 14 Altarpiece No 1., Group X (1915)
13 Altarpiece No. 3, Group X (1915)

Comments

[yarnofariadne]

These are beautiful, I love Hilma af Klint's work! Saved a few, will credit when used. Thank you!

[thrilleddumpling]

These are lovely <333

[mxroboto]

wow, these are incredible!!

[dividedbyblue]

Beautiful icons! So sad to know about the treatment of the women of the Bauhaus, I had no idea. Details like that are often omitted in art courses, where they sometimes talk about women artists but then fail to mention these things.

[cimorene]

I know! And I had done so much casual and light reading about the Bauhaus (nothing in depth like an actual book) and never saw any mention of any of it.