Visionary - On Hilma af Klint and the Spirit of Her Time - Part 1

Hilma af Klint began painting abstract as early as 1906, several years earlier than Vassili Kandinski and Piet Mondrian. Who was she really and how are we to understand that her life's work has become known to the world only now?
0:10 Patricia Berman - Introduction
08:29 Daniel Birnbaum - The Incredible Legacy of Hilma af Klint.
22:17 Julia Voss - 5 Things One Should Know About The Life of Hilma af Klint.
42:42 Tracey Bashkoff - Parallel Visionaries: Hilla Rebay and Hilma af Klint.
1:04:16 Discussion.
During the inauguration of the exhibition Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a symposium was arranged: Visionary - about Hilma af Klint's art and the spirit of the time around the turn of the century 1900. It dealt with issues such as the beginning of abstract art and its connections to movements that flourished then in the United States and Europe.