Svend Hammershøi (Danish, 1873-1948)
Rosenborg Castle 1940
pencil sketch on paper, signed lower right and inscribed "Rosenborg 40", inscribed on back "Rosenborg Slot 1940" and with label
Size in inches: 29 h x 36 w (with frame: 35 h x 42 w)
ZJ20571
Svend Hammershøi was the younger brother of the famous Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) who had a strong influenced on him. Svend attended the Copenhagen Technical College before studying at the Royal Danish Academy from 1890-1892. He then spent five years at the independent Kunstnernes Studieskoler where his brother had also studied. Interested in ceramics from the young age of 14, in 1888 he began to decorate porcelain at Kjøbenhavns Lervarefabrik in Valby where he worked with the artist Thorvald Bindesbøll from 1890-1905 as well as in Næstved with Herman Kähler and at the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain factory. He is remembered for the classical designs he contributed to these factories. When his mentor Bindesbøll died in 1908, Hammershøi lost interest in ceramics and later published a biography Thorvald Bindesbøll in Memoriam, 1846-1946. He returned to drawing and then painting, and travelled to Berlin, Dresden and finally moving to England in 1910 on a study grant where he created architectural paintings of Oxford and Wells. He returned to Denmark during WWI where he continued to paint, but traveled annually to Oxford until 1933. He exhibited internationally including in Paris and London.
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