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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Och nu har det även gått ut i pressen! Gården Hilma af Klints ateljé har öppnat på Adelsö. Öppet för allmänheten fre-lö kl 11-16 fram t.o.m. 30 augusti. www.expressen.se/noje/svenska...

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Svenska konstlegenden Hilma af Klint hyllas på nytt center

Konstnären Hilma af Klint slog besöksrekord på Guggenheimmuseet i New York. Nu hyllas hon i Sverige med ett nytt besökscenter på Adelsö utanför Stockholm.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Our opening exhibition shows the places which mattered to her: Adelsö-Munsö, the Temple, and the altar. We are also showing a long interview with Ulla af Klint, who was married to Hilma’s nephew Erik, who inherited her works.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The center is not the ”Temple”, its aim is not to exhibit her big works, but to illustrate all the sides of her life: who she was, what influenced her, her world. It’s also to welcome contemporary artists, thinkers, writers, to discover her world, and the lands which were so important to her.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hilma af Klint spent a lot of time on Adelsö and it was a place very dear and important for her. Later in life, she had her studio built on the neighbouring island Munsö. Here she kept all her esoteric (”abstract”) art.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Sorry for the delay. On June 15 we inaugurated the first place dedicated to Hilma af Klint. The center is called Hilma af Klint’s Ateljé and it’s located on the island Adelsö, about 1hr from Stockholm.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

11/11 We might never know more details than this. We do know now, after reading her notes, that she considered herself as a Parsifal. She was carrying the Holy Sword, the message and healer to humanity. The Sword which for both af Klint and Wagner symbolised the link between spirit and body.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

10/11 Few pieces of music have been so written about as Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, so even in Sweden. Between 1882 and 1916 no less than 3500 articles had been published in the Swedish press about the opera. So we can assume Hilma af Klint, who was also interested in music, had read about it. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

9/11 And nearly 35 years after Richard Wagner’s death. The original premiere of Parsifal took place at the second Bayreuth festival in the summer of 1882. Hilma af Klint was then 20 years old and about to enter the Royal Academy of Arts. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

8/11 Hilma af Klint was most likely working from Stockholm as the studio at Munsö wasn’t ready before 1918. The premiere of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal took place at the Stockholm Opera on April 21 1917, ie half a year AFTER Hilma af Klint completed her series of 144 paintings. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

7/11 He called Anthroposophy “the science about the Graal”. But that would be in the 1920’s, and as we have noted by now, Hilma af Klint painted her series in November 1916. What is, if there is, the connection between her paintings and Richard Wagner’s opera? >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

6/11 He carries the Sword with him but cannot use it to fight (and defend himself); it has to be brought back unsoiled to the castle to heal the king. Wagner’s sword is Sacred, it is the Sword of the Graal. Rudolf Steiner, founder of Anthroposophy, would write at lengths about Wagner’s Parsifal. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

5/11 The Sword of the Graal. The same sword which had pierced the side of Jesus hanging on the Cross. The choice of spelling also bears meaning. If Perceval means “Through the Valley” (“per ce val”), Parsifal holds its meaning from Parsi = fool and Fal=pure, “The pure fool”. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

4/11 Wagner rewrote the story, combining characters and slightly changing the key of the saga. In von Eschenbachs version, the king would be healed if Parsifal asked the right Question (“What is the Graal?”), in Wagner’s version he could only be healed by the Sword which inflicted the wound, >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

3/11 The Ring of the Nibelung which he wrote in his late thirties, and Parsifal, which was his last main opera. We worked on it for 30 years. He encountered the medieval legend by Wolfram von Eschenbach in 1945. It is complicated to summarise the myth of Parsifal / Perceval / Parzival because >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

2/11 It is interesting to note that Wagner and af Klint spelled the name in the same way, not with a C nor a Z but an S, not with an E but an A, not with a V but an F - Parsifal. We might have forgotten it today, but Richard Wagner revolutionalised the art of music. among his two main oeuvres are >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We are marking a pause in the series Parsifal as we are about to enter the last sub-series of the 144 paintings. An obvious association regarding Parsifal is the opera by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) with the same name. >>🧵

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

2/2 — When the physical body has thus undergone the purifying fire, it has come to a natural submission to the laws of life. Now it is also freed from original sin. It feels within itself a great increase of health, soundness, joy of life, and jubilation."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🖼HaK328 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 122 29 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "Then comes an indigo-colored one." "In the last page, the result is shown: a very beautiful color has emerged, it is violet. The violet color is predominantly bluish-red, with blue being its purest part. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Nu går solen knappast ner, bländar bara av sitt sken. Skymningsbård blir gryningstimme varken tidig eller sen. Juni natt blir aldrig av, liknar mest en daggig dag. Slöjlikt lyfter sig dess skymning och bärs bort på ljusa hav. Harry Martinsson 1953 📷 Hilma af Klints ateljé Adelsö 7 juni 2025 kl 22.50

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

2/2 They would rather go out into ignorance than continue to try to penetrate life prematurely."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🖼HaK327 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 121 29 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "The one following that is blue-green." "And in the following image, both are erased. They have decided to completely and fully close their gates in order instead to acknowledge their inability. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

3/3 because the life of thought is difficult to overcome. In the following image, feeling is predominant; devotion has succeeded in conquering thought."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

2/3 dissecting life. In this image, it is shown that the two forces which the physical body must take in—thought and feeling—become united, make peace. Thought is still predominant, that is, thought has pure intentions but still wants to take the dominant tone, >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🖼HaK326 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 120 [119 seems to be missing] 28 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "The next page is yellow-green." "The next page is a description of when the human soul has come to realize its discord, begun to understand the fall. The fall consisted precisely in >>

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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Recommending the Hilma af Klint exhibition, "What Stands Behind the Flowers," at MoMa. Pick up the tote too! #WildflowerWednesday

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

5/5 True innocence is to surrender oneself to life itself, through both mercy and hardship. Represent this with orange."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

4/5 is forced to expel certain forces it has eagerly acquired. These forces are involved with thought operations; if life is to be lived fully, it must not be filled with outward-directed thoughts. For these thoughts are the direct opposite of innocence. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

3/5 [see previous painting] But because life must quickly shift to avoid becoming a victim of downward-dragging forces, it is necessary to follow life’s instructions. After passion has burned through the body, after the body has thus taken on mobility, there is a certain setback in that the body >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

2/5 power after power and is at times boiling hot when it gathers from the pulsating life. Therefore, it is something good to have drunk deeply of the glowing-hot wine, thus having even felt within oneself what is commonly called a passionate feeling. This is what is depicted on the first page. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🖼HaK325 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 118 28 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "The second page is similar, only with the difference that the square has changed to orange." Further on, she explains: "The physical body is fragile; it is to be regarded as a photograph of life. It absorbs >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

4/4 the pink color, meaning that devotion brings forth true love. The upper right square shall be white, meaning that thought has developed into wisdom. Nothing further is needed on the first page."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

3/4 into devotion and therefore shall have a light blue designation. The lower left expresses mental life in its earthly condition, starting from orange, rising up to light yellow, thereby signifying the subjugation of thought under wisdom. Furthermore, the upper left square shall have >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

2/4 physical emotional and mental life in all its fullness. But to show that different areas of development arise within the physical body, four small squares of different colors are placed in the corners. The lower right is a symbol of emotional life in its earthly form; it shall be developed >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🖼HaK324 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 117 28 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "The square I am tasked with explaining has the fiery red color. This means that we must start from our earthly forces, including even a burning desire, if I may put it that way—starting from an intense >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

6/6 To the right, seen from the front, is light yellow; to the left, light blue; and the upper field — right is white, left is pink."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

5/6 our lost innocence—by demonstrating perseverance after perseverance, both in the realm of emotional life and thought life, and finally also in the physical realm. I want to illustrate this on my cover by drawing an ellipse divided into four fields. >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

4/6 to be confused with hardness. Power is to dare to believe in the kingdom of heaven and its ability to overcome the underworld. Everything that was released from the Garden of Eden must be gathered again by the physical body. Here, and only here, do we have the ability to once again regain >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

3/6 result is a weakening; emotional life is especially vulnerable, for it scatters its energy without restraint. Thought, on the other hand, when it becomes petrified, does not release its power as quickly. Of the two, emotional life thus contributes the greatest share. (...) To show power is not >

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

2/6 "Power is to be likened to small invisible pearls that are expelled from the etheric body into space. Each small unit of energy consists of three primary colors: yellow, blue, and pink. Each such little pearl is held together by innocence. Thus, when our energy is scattered to the wind, the >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🖼HaK323 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 116 [115 seems to be missing] 30 November 1916 Here is our third "egg" or ellipse or pearl - Hilma opens yet another sub-series in Group 3. She doesn't leave a note on November 30, but the day before she writes: >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

2/2 outward on both sides white. But to make the victory of love clear, let the pink color also extend just a little beyond the central square."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🖼HaK322 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 114 24 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "And in the last one, the black color is white; otherwise, the same designation. And the St. Andrew’s cross has a different color scale: within the green square, the color on both sides is pink, >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Except from the many catalogues, there’s yet ”only” the biography of Hilma af Klint by author Julia Voss in English to read.

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🖼HaK321 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 113 24 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "In the next image, the light brown has become light violet; otherwise, the same designation."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

3/3 from the center upward to the left, one downward to the left, and a pink one in the opposite direction."

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

2/3 but not within the house’s four walls. And yet, one of the walls is a composition of etheric force—that is, the house must receive its power from earthly life and spread that power out into space. This is the cube’s mission. It can be suggested by drawing a white line >>

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Hilma af Klint @hilmaafklint.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🖼HaK320 Series Parsifal Group 3, no. 112 24 November 1916 Note by Hilma af Klint otsd: "The St. Andrew’s cross runs through the middle square but does not touch the walls of the house, thus extending out into space. This means that the very foundation contains the St. Andrew’s cross, >>

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