Hammershøi and the Life of Interiors - Dr Kathy McLauchlan

A Friends of Kenwood Sunday lecture given by Dr Kathy McLauchlan on Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916).

Hammershøi's subject is the domestic interior - occasionally inhabited by a single figure, more often empty. He shows us the spaces that contained, shaped and reflected his perceptions and feelings. His paintings combine abstract beauty with an emotional resonance. They make us reflect on the spaces we inhabit and suggest a world beyond that which is ordinarily domestic.

Dr Kathy McLauchlan is an art historian specialising in French painting and art of the nineteenth century. She is currently the director of many courses at the V&A, including one on Nordic art, and also lectures for the Arts Society, Morley College and Oxford University.

Introduction music: At the Bier of a Young Artist (1910) by Carl Nielsen

Produced by Friends of Kenwood
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