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born on October 26, 1862 at Karlberg Castle in Solna, Sweden
died on October 21, 1944 in Djursholm, Sweden
Swedish painter
80th anniversary of her death on October 21, 2024
"The work of Hilma af Klint crashes like a meteorite into one of the most important narratives in art history"; "...it is no longer a secret that a concentrated power lies in her work"; "the history of abstraction must be rewritten"; "the rediscovery of Hilma af Klint is considered one of the greatest sensations in art in recent years"; "...groundbreaking artist and pioneer of abstraction." This is only a handful of the numerous quotes from the past few years that extoll the artist’s work and that clearly point to how the Swedish painter had broken with all previous artistic tradition.
Hilma af Klint's extraordinary biography began in 1862, when she was born at Karlberg Castle as the fourth child of her parents. Her father came from a long line of highly respected naval officers. It was he who first awakened Hilma's interest in science, mathematics, botany and painting. For several generations, the men of the family had been commanders in the Swedish fleet. They had mapped…read more
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Zéna M’Déré
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Charlotte Perriand
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Anna Amalia, Herzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
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S. Corinna Bille
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Doris Lessing
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Nadia Boulanger
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Sarah Bernhardt
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Born 21 October 1884 in Gelsenkirchen
Died 22 January 1957 in Bad Reichenhall
German cabaret performer and singer
60th anniversary of death on 22 January 2017
Berlin, 1913, in the Linden Cabaret: Head of flaming red hair tipped slightly back, one eyebrow mockingly raised, wearing perhaps a favored gentleman’s tie with her simple blouse – Claire Waldoff sings the song that will become her best-known song, her trademark. Kurt Tucholsky describes her appearance: “Smoothly, mewlingly and innocently she first sings a bunch of things, “if and how and where” – and then suddenly her voice bellows out andante above the heads of the laughing audience and through the cigar smoke and the noise: ‘Hermann heest a ….’ (His name is Hermann …) And once again, softer: ‘Hermann-heest-a…’ And dying away: ‘Hermann-heest-a…’ And on it goes, how he dances and snores and ‘selbst noch im Traume nach mir quäst er… Hermann heest a…!’ (how even in his dream he whines for me). And this piano is so comically studied, so inadequate to the bawling voice that one is stunned. How does she get that piano, that soprano out of herself? A soprano that’s so high that…read more
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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Mary McCarthy
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Angelina Grimké
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