The Musée Jacquemart-André opens retrospective devoted to Vilhelm Hammershøi
(Artdaily.org)

The Musée Jacquemart-André and Culturespaces are holding an exhibition devoted to the great master of Danish painting, Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). For the first time in twenty years, the painter’s mysterious and poetic works will be exhibited in Paris. An article on Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) written in 1911 stated that ‘Visiting the artist at his home is like stepping inside one of his paintings’. The painter chose to represent his daily environment and the members of his inner circle in most of his works. Taciturn in temperament, he depicted in his canvases a world in his own image, imbued with a disquieting silence. The exhibition invites visitors to discover this mysterious world: by showing the artist’s links with his family and friends, who were also artists, it will shed new light on Hammershøi’s oeuvre.