Kandinsky and Pollock have been acclaimed as the pioneers of abstract art. Overlooking the Swedish artist who was inspired by seances with female friends.
Hilma af Klint: how a “crazy, remote woman” upstaged male art heroes
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Some paintings are worthy of pilgrimage. But for Halina Dyrschka, there are some paintings that are so extraordinary, they are journeys in themselves. In 2013, the Berlin-based filmmaker saw a series of works called
The Ten Largest, by a Swedish mystic called Hilma af Klint in a German newspaper. The images transported her so vividly, she lost the ability to describe them.
“When I saw her paintings, I thought ‘it cannot be’,” says Dyrschka, who would later visit the exhibition