Hilma af klint a swedish born female painter who began producing work in the early 1900s is beginning to be recognised as the first artist ever to have produced a piece of abstract art prior to her discovery abstract art was considered to have begun famously with wassily kandinskys watercolours in 1910. Hilma af klint painting the unseen serpentine gallery 3 mar 15 may 2016 free serpentine galleries presented an exhibition of swedish painter hilma af klint 1862 1944 who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Hilma af klint painting the unseen clandestine early twentieth century swedish mystical painter hilma af klints no 7 adulthood group iv 1907 from the ten largest series was never exhibited in the artists lifetime produced in secret under instructions dictated by a spirit named amaliel whom af klint contacted during seances