Hammershøi - Hardcover

Felix Krämer; Naoki Sato

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190571128X ISBN 13: 9781905711284

Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008

Synopsis

, 173 pages, with colour illustrations throughout, book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence'

About this title

Synopsis:

This comprehensive survey is published to coincide with an exhibition of the art of the Danish painter Vilhelm HammershACi (1864-1916). "HammershACi's" subject-matter centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal detail, he transformed his apartment into a series of disturbingly empty spaces. The same strange stillness can be seen in his portraits, landscapes and city views of his native Copenhagen and of London, in all of which the passage of time appears to have been inexplicably suspended. The book is beautifully illustrated with works that span all stages of HammershACi's career, while the essays explore the singularity of his vision, placing his achievement in the context of fin-de-sicle Symbolist art and examining his links with Dutch masters of the seventeenth century.

About the Author:

Felix Kramer works at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Naoki Sato is curator at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark is Director of the Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen, the Danish museum of French Impressionism and 19th-century Danish art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 190571128X
• ISBN 13: 9781905711284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176