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Wilhelm Hammershoi

By: Edward Lucie-Smith
Narrated by: Jim Spring
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Summary

Hammershoi is, in a certain sense, the Danish Vermeer, an artist whom he occasionally paraphrased. That is to say, a quietist painter obsessed by subtle effects of light, forgotten very soon after his death, but rediscovered and turned into a demi-god by a later generation.

©2014, 2018 Cv Publications (P)2018 Cv Publications
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