ANNA CASSEL: THE SAGA OF THE ROSE. EDITED BY KURT ALMQVIST AND DANIEL BIRNBAUM. Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2023. 182 pages.ANNA CASSEL: THE SAGA OF THE ROSE, a sumptuously designed book by the same publisher of the seven-volume, thirty-eight-pound Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné, is not only an astonishing revelation of a heretofore unknown visual artist, but one whose recently discovered participation in the creation of Hilma af Klint’s renowned “Paintings for the Temple” necessitates a reconceptualization of this pioneering work, and hence a corrective to the history of modernism itself as it
She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer lies in the spirit world