Hilma af KlintA highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (18621944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals were shown during her lifetime, her body of radical, abstract works never received the same attention. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint produced the earliest abstract paintings by a