Hilma af Klint

A Note from the Translator
Chronology

Introduction

Part I. Family, Childhood, and Youth in Stockholm
1. Mary Wollstonecraft Visits Sweden and Is Upset
2. Birth
3. School and Religion
4. An Exhibition in London
5. Bertha Valerius and the Dead
6. Kerstin Cardon's Painting School
7. Hermina's Death

Part II. Study at the Academy and Independent Work
1. The Academy
2. Guardian Spirit
3. The Prize
4. Anna Cassel
5. "My First Experience with Mediumship"
6. The Young Artist
7. Dr. Helleday and Love
8. The Five
9. Art from the Orient
10. Rose and Cross
11. At the Veterinary Institute
12. Children's Books and Decorative Art
13. Italy
14. Genius

Part III. Paintings for the Temple
1. Old Images
2. Revolution
3. Primordial Chaos
4. Eros
5. Medium
6. The Ten Largest
7. "I Was the Instrument of Ecstasy"
8. Rudolf Steiner Visits Sweden
9. The Young Ones
10. Sigrid Lancen
11. The Association of Swedish Women Artists
12. Frank Heyman
13. Island Kingdom in Maelaren
14. First Exhibition with the Theosophists
15. Tree of Knowledge
16. The Kiss
17. Singoalla
18. The Baltic Exhibition
19. War
20. Saint George
21. Kandinsky in Stockholm
22. Parsifal and Atom
23. The Studio on Munsoe
24. Thomasine Anderson

Part IV. Dornach, Amsterdam, and London
1. The Suitcase Museum
2. Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens
3. First Visit to the Goetheanum
4. "Belongs to the Astral World According to Doctor Steiner"
5. The Fire and the Letter
6. Amsterdam
7. London

Part V. Temple and Later Years
1. The Temple and the Spiral
2. +x
3. A Temple in New York
4. The London Blitz
5. Future Woman
6. National Socialism
7. Lecture in Stockholm
8. "Degenerate" Art in Germany and Abstract Art in New York
9. Tyra Kleen and the Plan for a Museum
10 Last Months
11. Conclusion

Afterword by Johan af Klint
Afterword by Ulrika af Klint
Appendix 1. Hilma af Klint's Travels and Places of Residence
Appendix 2. The Library of Hilma af Klint
Acknowledgments
Illustration Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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