Hilma af Klint : What Stands Behind the Flowers

A close look at a portfolio of forty-six botanical drawings by Hilma af Klint, and the abstract diagrams the artist developed to express the interconnectedness of the natural and spiritual realms.

“I have shown,” wrote the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, “that there is a connection between the plant world and the world of the soul.” Her Nature Studies portfolio (1919–20), recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, comprises 46 sheets of exquisitely rendered botanical drawings. Documenting e