Vilhelm hammershoi biography books
•
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to Softcover in stiff wraps. pp. with b/w and color illustrations. Clean, unmarked, well bound. Text in English and Danish. Published to coincide with an exhibition of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi's () works at Ordrupgaard art museum, Copenhagen, Short biographical essay by Harald Olsen, a critical essay entitled "The Black and White Colourist" by Thorkild Hansen, and preface by Hanne Finsen. Mild to moderate shelfwear to wraps, " oblique crease to rear cover. Very small bump to top of spine. First 19pp tinily bumped at upper corner, not at all affecting text or image. Page interiors crisp and bright. A collection of subdued, haunting portraits and paintings of interiors, the viewing of which produces an effect "as if [their subjects] have been brought back for us from their perishable world. All the reality that merely wishes to do away with us, has in some way or other been overcome. When we look at these pi
•
Vilhelm Hammershøi: Silence
Vilhelm Hammershøi: Silence
Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Text bygd Felix salvor, Florian Illies.
Hammershøis muted, serene interiors inspire a profound sense of stillness and calm
Hauser & Wirth inaugurates its new space in Basel at Luftgässlein 4 with an exhibition dedicated to the soft and subdued interior paintings of celebrated 19th-century Danish symbolist Vilhelm Hammershøi (). Silence offers an in-depth understanding of Hammershøis highly individual artistic language, encapsulated in 18 works, all from private collections, some rarely exhibited before. Bringing tillsammans the interior paintings for which Hammershøi is most celebrated with farmstead paintings, cityscapes and a rare self-portrait, the works featured in Silence demonstrate the breadth and depth of the artists practice. Accompanied by illuminating essays bygd Felix salvor, the exhibitions curator and a leading expert on Hammershøi, and Florian Illies, art historian
•
Summary of Vilhelm Hammershøi
In the quiet interiors, bare exteriors, and sparse landscapes of Vilhelm Hammershøi an impenetrable riddle is concealed. He is best known for his paintings of domestic spaces, scantly furnished rooms with white walls and plain floors: horizontal and vertical planes that often meet at irregular points on the canvas. Figures sit or stand, turned away or half-concealed, perhaps engrossed in an activity such as reading which draws their attention away from us. Like the sitter to the book, our perception is somehow irresistibly drawn to these spaces, in which almost nothing is happening, but which suggest something profound and inexpressible about the nature of life and art. The bare facades, skies, streets and tree-lines of his outdoor scenes have the same effect. The most immediate point of reference for Hammershøi's work is Symbolism, and we can also trace a thread of affinity back through the Naturalist and Realist traditions of Northern Europe to the D