This classic pioneering work by Åke Fant is now available in English translation for the first time since its original publication in 1989. Following her training at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and twenty years of painting, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) began working with an abstract visual language in 1906. She then dedicated the rest of her life to an immense artistic commission. Like her contemporaries Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, af Klint was inspired by the spiritual realm. She drew on occult sources of her day, such as Spiritualism and the writings of Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant and Rudolf Steiner.

This edition supplements Åke Fant’s original text and Lars Nittve’s foreword with a new preface by Kurt Almqvist and an updated timeline. Fant’s work remains vital even in the light of subsequent research, at a time when interest in Hilma af Klint and her work has never been greater.