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Lädt ... Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence [exhibition] Royal Academy of Arts, 2008 (2008)von Felix Kramer, Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Vilhelm Hammershøi, National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Royal Academy of Arts — 2 mehr, Naoki Sato, Statens Museum for Kunst
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This comprehensive survey, published to coincide with a major exhibition, explores the work of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammersh#65533;i (1864-1916). In haunting interior scenes, Hammersh#65533;i dispensed with anecdotal detail, transforming 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. Expertly produced, Hammersh#65533;i explores the singularity of the artist’s vision, placing his achievement in the context of ?n-de-si#65533;cle Symbolist art and examining his links with Dutch masters of the seventeenth century. Widely revered in Europe during his lifetime, Hammersh#65533;i is now ripe for rediscovery. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The overwhelming impression given by these monochromatic pictures is of northern gloom, isolation and depression. His characteristic interiors, mostly painted in his own apartment in Christianhavn, show almost empty rooms, doors variously open and closed with pale light filtering through uncurtained windows. The dark-clad female figures are mostly painted from the rear, not from any lack of portraiture skill, but rather to emphasise their anonymity. In the same way as the rooms are largely devoid of evidence of human existence his grey landscapes, even in cities, lack any human figures.
Hammershoi's technique is skilful, if unvarying, but his subject matter and the limited palette - influenced by Whistler - left me longing for Provencal light. These pictures could be seen as representations of seasonal affective disorder and one wonders what he painted in the long northern summer days.