Pearls from the Collection - Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi studied at The Academy of Fine Arts and at "Kunstneres frie Studieskoler" - a school founded as a protest against The Academy of Fine Atrs in Copenhagen. As a painter, he was long considered controversial due to his distinctive universe, characterised by simple yet precise compositions painted in a muted color palette, rich in gray tones. Hammershøi focused on a limited range of subjects, and throughout his life, he mainly painted atmospheric interiors of his private homes, landscapes, scenes of architecture devoid of human life, and portraits of himself and his loved ones.

Today, Hammershøi is considered one of Denmark’s most significant painters. The exhibition features both well-known landscape motifs and interior paintings, as well as the portraits Double Portrait of the Artist and His Wife, 1892, one of the very few double portraits Hammershøi created of himself and his wife, and Nude Female Model, 1910, a close and unembellished depiction of a strongly illuminated female