Vilhelm Hammershøi: Painting as Poetry

by Henrik Wivel

Copenhagen: 2026. 256 pages, fully illustrated. Hardback. 28 x 21cms.

A re-examination of Vilhelm Hammershøi's oeuvre and modes of influence. Seven chapters trace Hammershøi's career, beginning with his marriage and first home, his relationship with the burgeoning culture of Decadence and artistic movements like Symbolism; the usefulness of understanding his work as a 'neurasthenic', his relationship with modernity and his turn towards depicting interiority and absorption, and finally a look at how he and his circle depicted cityscapes and landscapes. 

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