Vilhelm Hammershøi

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The Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) is renowned across the world for his interior paintings, with their distinctive compositions, intense effects of light and instantly recognisable, understated subjects such as a door, a window, or a woman seen from behind.

This magnificent volume brings to life entirely new dimensions of Hammershøi’s art, revealing how profoundly the artist was inspired by the medium of photography. Hammershøi used photography to explore new perspectives on the world, to study phenomena of light and darkness and to experiment with unconventional ways of cropping his motifs. Featuring more than 500 illustrations, the book follows Hammershøi throughout his career in what is the largest and most comprehensive publication on the artist to date.

The book is co-published with Yale University Press.