Vilhelm Hammershoi
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alexandralVilhelm Hammershoi (15.05.1864 – 13.02.1916) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His art sometimes is called "dispassionate" and "purist" but this is strangely at odds with my own impression from it. I would have called his art to be "moody" and "atmospheric" but at the same time it is full of light. It gives me a feeling of disquiet. I often find myself staring at his works as if I stare long enough I find a secret of each painting. Hammershoi almost always painted his models from behind as if to hide the expressions on their faces and he often painted shadows. His most famous model was his wife Ida and though I seem numerous paintings of her I still feel that I don't really know how her face looks like. Was she pretty? Melancholic? It seems that she was..
Few of my favourite paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi:
A Lady reading in an interior:
A room with a piano and woman in black:
A woman reading by a window (My favourite painting of his – I wish I knew what this lady is reading!)
A woman sewing in an interior:
Bedroom:
Interior with a girl at the clavier:
Interior with a woman reading a letter:
Interior with back view of young woman:
London Street:
Rest
White Open Doors
Light:
I made some icons from his paintings. They are free to share. Preview:
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His art sometimes is called "dispassionate" and "purist" but this is strangely at odds with my own impression from it. I would have called his art to be "moody" and "atmospheric" but at the same time it is full of light. It gives me a feeling of disquiet. I often find myself staring at his works as if I stare long enough I find a secret of each painting. Hammershoi almost always painted his models from behind as if to hide the expressions on their faces and he often painted shadows. His most famous model was his wife Ida and though I seem numerous paintings of her I still feel that I don't really know how her face looks like. Was she pretty? Melancholic? It seems that she was..
Few of my favourite paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi:
A Lady reading in an interior:
A room with a piano and woman in black:
A woman reading by a window (My favourite painting of his – I wish I knew what this lady is reading!)
A woman sewing in an interior:
Bedroom:
Interior with a girl at the clavier:
Interior with a woman reading a letter:
Interior with back view of young woman:
London Street:
Rest
White Open Doors
Light:
I made some icons from his paintings. They are free to share. Preview:
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02. 03. 04.05.
06. 07. 08.09.
10. 11. 12.13.
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Date: 2007-08-16 05:47 pm (UTC)I didn't know the artist but find his work really interesting! His paintings remind me a bit of Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1842) who also painted interior scenes with solitary figures looking out of a window, stitching or writing a letter. His paintings do have a completely different atmosphere, though. Not so "ghostly". This here is more like Whistlers "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother" (1871), Thomas Wilmer Dewing's "A Reading" (1897) and Khnopff, -- and still fascinatingly unique. I am captivated. :-)
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Date: 2007-08-20 01:07 am (UTC)