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A Party in the Artist's Home
Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860–1940)
1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 190 cm, width 190.5 cm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
Shy and retiring, Hammershøi preferred not to attract interest. It is typical, then, that he is not at the centre of Julius Paulsen’s group, but discreetly withdrawn (far left). Hammershøi’s circle of friends featured many artists and writers, including Paulsen, a late 19th-c. painter of moods and atmospheres who worked with portraits and landscapes (see room 225). His group portrait shares the densely atmospheric quality of Hammershøi’s art, but uses a wider palette. The other people at the party are (l-r) Paulsen’s wife Esther, née Lange, writer Louis Levy, architect Hans Koch, writer Sven Lange, and the artist’s daughter Inger (who married Hugo Liisberg, a sculptor). The painting was done the year before Hammershøi’s death.
