Vilhelm Hammershoi: Painting as PoetryVilhelm Hammershi (18641916) is internationally acclaimed for the interior paintings he produced at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, the home he shared with his wife, Ida, from 1898 to 1909. Rendered in a superb range of greys, these quiet rooms also served as the artists studio. Ida appears again and again as a favoured motif, often with her back turned towards the viewer. Taking as its starting point fresh readings of Hammershis figures, interiors,