Vilhelm Hammershøi and Danish art at the turn of the century
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Vilhelm Hammershøi and Danish art at the turn of the century
Yale University Press, 1992
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Hammershøi
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Hammershøi
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-445) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Vilhelm Hammershoi was a leading Danish painter of his generation. In this illustrated book - winner of the Amelienborg Prize in its Danish version - the author examines the life and work of Hammershoi. He looks at Hammershoi not only as an important Danish painter but also in the context of European art in general at the beginning of the 20th century. His biography of Hammershoi is interwoven with readings of significant or characteristic works from each phase of the painter's career - from the interior paintings to the monumental figure compositions "Artemis" and "Five Portraits", in which Hammershoi introduced pictorial innovations and summed up his vision of the human condition. The book also describes Hammershoi's relationship with many of the leading art critics, writers, patrons and dealers of his day, including Theodore Duret, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sergei Diaghilev, Arthur Clutton-Brock and the English pianist Leonard Borwick. An appendix contains previously unpublished letters from Rilke, Diaghilev and Whistler.
Table of Contents
- Early maturity
- initiation - four figure pictures 1885-90
- with and against the times
- a collector and his collection
- free exhibitor, married man, artist in Paris
- about Artemis
- grand lines
- London, style change
- the spirit of the place - Strangade
- about five portraits
- architecture, landscapes, a cool mystic
- the English friend
- seen with foreign eyes - Rilke and Clutton-Brock
- jump - four human portrayals 1907-1914
- Christianshavn round trip - fame, and the moment of truth
- epilogue with obstacles
- aspects
- materials, palette, technique afterword
- biographical summary.
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