Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi (15 May, 1864 - 13 February, 1916) was a painter born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked mainly in his native city painting primarily portraits, architecture, landscapes, and interior scenes. He is most famous for the latter, which are painted in a muted palette.

Travels

Hammershøi travelled to the Netherlands and Belgium in 1887. In 1889 he exhibited four pictures at the Paris World Fair and had his first opportunity to see works by Whistler. From September 1891 to March 1892 he lived in Paris, where he was frequently in the company of Willumsen. He also met Th. Durét, who later visited him in Copenhagen. From October to December 1893 he was in northern Italy. In June 1897 he went to Stockholm; in October the same year, he went by way of the Netherlands to London, where he remained until May 1898. He may have seen the major exhibition which opened there on May 16 (The Skating Rink, Knightsbridge), where, in addition to works by Monet, Manet, Bonnard, Vuillard, and German artists, there were nine oil paintings by Whistler.

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Netherlands - Belgium - 1887 - Whistler - 1891 - 1892 - Willumsen - 1893 - Italy - 1897 - London - 1898 - Monet - Manet - Bonnard - Vuillard

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From October 1902 to February 1903 he was again in Italy, and in September 1904 in London. Hammershoi's trips, especially those to London, are important for his artistic development. Part of his time in London was spent in painting street scenes around the British Museum, and part, it is said, in seeking out Whistler. In Paris the portrait of his future wife Ida Ilsted (1890) was admired by Th. Durét and Puvis de Chavannes, and Renoir was said to have been interested in some of his early portraits, among them the one of his sister which had been rejected earlier.

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1902 - 1903 - 1904 - Whistler

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