Hammershoi's Light

Wilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish artist who painted landscapes, farms, and other rural scenes but his most compelling works are his quiet, melancholy interiors, mostly of the apartments he lived in in Copenhagen. Hammershoi's paintings capture nearly empty rooms, sometimes with a solitary figure, often his wife Ida. Painted within a tight tonal range of grays, and desaturated yellows and blues these rooms seem to murmur in a near hypnotic state.

Tall Windows, 1913

study of sunlight, 1906.

 
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