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The Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi found his favorite motifs in the rooms of his respective current apartment: open double doors or windows, sunlight falling into the sparsely furnished rooms, cast shadows on the wall, or even his wife absorbed in a domestic activity. His sister or his mother with her characteristic hood also appear again and again in his paintings. Looking at his works through the years, one can watch the wife Frederikke aging.
Vilhelm Hammershoi came from an upper middle-class family, but he did not want to become a merchant like his father. Born in Copenhagen in 1864, he received drawing lessons as a child and later studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The Copenhagen art scene had little use for his melancholy, quiet interiors and genre scenes, and his first paintings were rejected. With a comrade-in-arms, he therefore created his own exhibition opportunities and founded "Den Frie Udstilling" - "The Free Exhibition", a kind of Danish secession. As early as 1889, he participated in the Great World Exhibition in Paris with a few works for Denmark. His interiors seem to be influenced by the French Nabis, and it is precisely during their first years that he stays in the French capital. However, the bright colors that the Nabis like to use for their paintings are not his thing. He loves the melancholy of muted colorfulness, but time and again he also sets color or light accents. For example, when a ray of sunlight falls on the window frame in a dark backyard. A sign of hope? The Nordic temperament? In some of his paintings, one is reminded of works by Edward Hopper. But if the latter is much more firmly rooted in the modern world of the 20th century, Hammershoi's works seem to have fallen out of time, strangely still. It is not without reason that he is called the "Danish Vermeer" today. His paintings retain their mystery. They seem symbolically charged without being obtrusive.
Vilhelm Hammershoi particularly reveres the work of the great American James McNeill Whistler. During a stay of several months in London, he wants to meet him, but does not succeed. So Hammershoi continues to work as if in secret and gradually his work becomes known. Even the great impresario Sergei Djagilev, founder of the groundbreaking "Ballets Russes", acquired two paintings by him. The Berlin gallery owner and art dealer Paul Cassirer also exhibited him in his Hamburg rooms. A highly respected council member of the Copenhagen Academy of Art, Hammershoi spent his last years mostly painting within his familiar four walls. Only rarely did he paint melancholy, deserted city or harbor scenes in Copenhagen, London, or Rome, but he did not become known for these. After his death in 1916 from cancer, his work initially fell into oblivion outside Denmark for many decades. It was not until the 1990s that his uniquely atmospheric paintings were rediscovered. Vilhelm Hammershoi is today considered one of the most important representatives of Symbolism.
The Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi found his favorite motifs in the rooms of his respective current apartment: open double doors or windows, sunlight falling into the sparsely furnished rooms, cast shadows on the wall, or even his wife absorbed in a domestic activity. His sister or his mother with her characteristic hood also appear again and again in his paintings. Looking at his works through the years, one can watch the wife Frederikke aging.
Vilhelm Hammershoi came from an upper middle-class family, but he did not want to become a merchant like his father. Born in Copenhagen in 1864, he received drawing lessons as a child and later studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The Copenhagen art scene had little use for his melancholy, quiet interiors and genre scenes, and his first paintings were rejected. With a comrade-in-arms, he therefore created his own exhibition opportunities and founded "Den Frie Udstilling" - "The Free Exhibition", a kind of Danish secession. As early as 1889, he participated in the Great World Exhibition in Paris with a few works for Denmark. His interiors seem to be influenced by the French Nabis, and it is precisely during their first years that he stays in the French capital. However, the bright colors that the Nabis like to use for their paintings are not his thing. He loves the melancholy of muted colorfulness, but time and again he also sets color or light accents. For example, when a ray of sunlight falls on the window frame in a dark backyard. A sign of hope? The Nordic temperament? In some of his paintings, one is reminded of works by Edward Hopper. But if the latter is much more firmly rooted in the modern world of the 20th century, Hammershoi's works seem to have fallen out of time, strangely still. It is not without reason that he is called the "Danish Vermeer" today. His paintings retain their mystery. They seem symbolically charged without being obtrusive.
Vilhelm Hammershoi particularly reveres the work of the great American James McNeill Whistler. During a stay of several months in London, he wants to meet him, but does not succeed. So Hammershoi continues to work as if in secret and gradually his work becomes known. Even the great impresario Sergei Djagilev, founder of the groundbreaking "Ballets Russes", acquired two paintings by him. The Berlin gallery owner and art dealer Paul Cassirer also exhibited him in his Hamburg rooms. A highly respected council member of the Copenhagen Academy of Art, Hammershoi spent his last years mostly painting within his familiar four walls. Only rarely did he paint melancholy, deserted city or harbor scenes in Copenhagen, London, or Rome, but he did not become known for these. After his death in 1916 from cancer, his work initially fell into oblivion outside Denmark for many decades. It was not until the 1990s that his uniquely atmospheric paintings were rediscovered. Vilhelm Hammershoi is today considered one of the most important representatives of Symbolism.
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.jpg "Interior with Porcelain Tureen by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior. Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Study of a standing woman, back view by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "An Interior with a Woman Playing Piano by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with a Young Woman Sweeping by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_1884_(oil_on_canvas_laid_down_o_-_(MeisterDrucke-160472).jpg "Seated Figure, Seen from Behind (Anna Hammershoi) by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Woman in an Interior, Strandgrade 30, 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Artist")
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.jpg "The Bakery by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Two Women at the Window by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-953315).jpg "Interior with a Woman Standing by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, 1893 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Sunshine in the Drawing Room III by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Anna Hammershøi by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Nude Female Model by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Naked Female Model, Profile by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Three Studies of Female Nude by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Young Woman. Resting by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Standing Female Nude by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with a Lady by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with Young Woman at the Piano by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "An Interior, Strandgade 25 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Woman Sitting Behind a Table by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "A Woman Sewing in an Interior by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Hvile also called Repos by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Artemis by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Court, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Woman Reading by a Piano by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Ida Ilsted by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ida Ilsted by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Old Wardrobe Sofa by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Ida Hammershoi Sitting on a Sofa by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Ida in an Interior, 1897 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with Potted Plant by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Sunshine in the Living Room, No.1 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Young Sick Girl by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Three Young Women by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with a Black Woman by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Evening in the Room by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Old Piano. Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Bedroom, Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Landscape from Lejre by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Sunny rayson in the living room, III by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Music Room, 30 Strandgade by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, 1910 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Landscape, 1909 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1034453).jpg "Landscape (view of Refsnaes) by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Reading Woman by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Row of Trees by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait V. Hammershøi, 1891 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Courtyard. Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-139134).jpg "Portrait of Ida, the Artist")
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.jpg "The Collector of Coins, 1904 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with Windsor chair by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Mother of the Artist by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Gentofte Lake by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "St. Peter")
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.jpg "Mother of the Artist by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "An Old Woman by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Five portraits by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Artist and His Wife by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Three Young Women by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with a Woman Arranging Flowers in a Vase by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Ida Standing at a Desk by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior with a flower port, Bredgade 25 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Old Woman by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, Strandgade 30 (detail), 1899 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "The Jewish School of Guilford Street, London by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Model by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Evening Interior by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907181).jpg "Interior with a Lady Reading by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-953332).jpg "Landscape (detail) by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, the Dining Room in Hammershøi")
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.jpg "The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, Seen from St. Annæ Gade, 1902 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-890984).jpg "The Old Piano. Strandgade 30 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ida by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "An Interior with the Artist")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait.")
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.jpg "Christianshavn Canal by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Artist")
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.jpg "Nude Female Model by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Sun Over the Sea by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Married Couple Hammershøi by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "St. Peter")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Dunkebakke, Frederiksvaerk by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Hall in Lindegaarden by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Interior, 1898 by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Landscape of Virum near Frederiksdal, summer by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
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.jpg "Landscape near Fortunen by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
.jpg "Living in Strand Street with Sunshine on the Floor by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
.jpg "Rest by Vilhelm Hammershoi")
.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl. The Artist")