Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864-1916 Danish painter, elder brother of the painter Svend Hammershøi. Born in Copenhagen. Studied under N.C. Kierkegaard, Fr. Rhode and Vilh. Kyhn; from 1879 at the Copenhagen Academy under Vermehren; from 1884 at the art school run by P.S. Krøyer. Helped to found the group Den Frie in 1891, after several of his works had been rejected by the jury of the Academy. ...