Richard R. Brettell

Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark

A new assessment of Gauguin' s involvement with-- and notable impact upon-- the Impressionist movement

Gauguin and Impressionism

Mikael Wivel

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Robert Rosenblum

Henri Loyrette

Vilhelm Hammersh©ıi

This book - the catalogue accompanying a widely acclaimed exhibition at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York - reveals the mysterious, melancholy world evoked in Hammershoi's works. Hammershoi's originality was recognized by his peers, but his work was too controversial to gain much support in Denmark during his lifetime. However, it was appreciated by collectors and institutions in England, France, Germany, and Italy, where it became known in exhibitions from the 1890s until his death. Frequently compared to Vermeer in his extraordinary use of line, light, and shadow, Hammershoi punctuates his hallmark interiors and landscapes with a mood of concentrated solitude. His remarkable portraits of friends and family become psychological studies, often revealing the isolation and loneliness of long, dark Scandinavian Winters.

Danish Painter of Solitude and Light

Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1864-1916

James Ensor

Nina Zimmer

Phantoms, skulls, skeletons, and other macabre figures characterize the oeuvre of James Ensor (1860-1949). His works are bizarre, ironic, occasionally belligerent and provocative, and always buoyed by a profound sense of humor. The unusual motifs reveal what is absurd and grotesque about everyday life. Ensor's interests were wide-ranging; he was as enthusiastic about Rembrandt's prints as he was about the Belgian Carnival festival and Japanese masks. In turn, early 20th-century artists such as Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee, and the German Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative power and radical rejection of traditional European ideals of beauty. This volume presents nearly sixty paintings and an equal number of drawings, which have been published for the first time.0Exhibition: Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark (6.9.2013-19.1.2014) / Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (16.2.-25.5.2014).

From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Swiss Collections

Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark

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