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Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - 1916

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Vilhelm Hammershøi (), often anglicised as Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 1864 – 13 February 1916), was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors. In 1905, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the artist, "Hammershøi is not one of those about whom one can speak quickly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelm Hammershøi has received more than 331,794 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Vilhelm Hammershøi is the 300th most popular painter (down from 279th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Painter.

Hammershøi is most famous for his paintings of Danish interiors.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vilhelm Hammershøi ranks 300 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacopo Bassano, Orazio Gentileschi, Félicien Rops, Carlo Carrà, Horace Vernet, and Pieter Claesz. After him are Masolino da Panicale, Vasily Vereshchagin, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Adriaen van Ostade, Daniele da Volterra, and Viktor Vasnetsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Vilhelm Hammershøi ranks 18. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred Hermann Fried, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Rudolf Kjellén, and Heinrich Wölfflin. After him are Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Jules Renard, Frank Wedekind, Alexej von Jawlensky, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, and Branislav Nušić. Among people deceased in 1916, Vilhelm Hammershøi ranks 29. Before him are Enrique Granados, Émile Verhaeren, Charles Taze Russell, Ivan Franko, Max Reger, and Eduard Strauss. After him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Gaston Maspero, Torakusu Yamaha, Rubén Darío, Percival Lowell, and Gérard Encausse.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vilhelm Hammershøi ranks 95 out of 1,032. Before him are Christina of Denmark (1521), Absalon (1128), Georg Brandes (1842), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), John, King of Denmark (1455), and Canute Lavard (1096). After him are Niels Gade (1817), Eric III of Denmark (1100), Maximilian von Spee (1861), Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), and N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Vilhelm Hammershøi ranks 4. Before him are Lili Elbe (1882), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), and Gerda Wegener (1886). After him are Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Anna Ancher (1859), Asger Jorn (1914), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Jens Juel (1745), and Marie Krøyer (1867).

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