SYMBOLISM

Vilhelm Hammershøj: Interiør med ung kvinde set fra ryggen ca 1902
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 The symbolism from about 1900 is also beautifully represented by works of L.A.Ring, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Ejnar Nielsen and J.F. Willumsen etc.

An example is Hammerhøi´s picture of a woman standing with her back turned at the observer. The secrecy of the figure, the big empty wall spaces , the asceticism of the architectonic style and the colours gives the picture an evocative character that suggest a number of symbolical meanings surpassing the mere perception of the painting.


[The Golden Age] [Realism] [Naturalism] [Symbolism] [The emergence of modernism]
[Expressionism between the wars] [Surrealistic and spontaneous abstraction]
[Cobra] [New international tendencies]
[Danish art in the 60´s and the 70´s ] [Danish art in the 80's and the 90's]
[Sven Dalsgaard] [Graphics]