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The woman who painted the first abstract painting
In 1906, Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, guided by spiritual voices during séances, created abstract works, spirals, weaves, forms without any reference to reality, anticipating Kandinsky and other fathers of abstraction by several years. Convinced that the world was not ready for her art, she hid over a thousand paintings for decades, stipulating in her will that they should only be revealed twenty years after her death. Rediscovered from the 1980s onward, it was only in 2018, with a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, that she regained her rightful place: as the first pioneer of abstraction, a woman who painted the future before the future knew it existed.
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