Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi Box Art

Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi

United Kingdom

Gender: Documentar

Director: Eleanor Yule

Date of release: 14 Jul 2005

Description

In 2005, Michael Palin set out to unlock the mysteries and find out about the background and life of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. Hammershøi painted around the start of the 20th century and many of his pictures have a distinct coolness and distance about them. Palin, wanting to know of his inspirations and the reason for these mystical pictures, starts his search in Hayward Gallery in London, goes to Amsterdam and finally the painters home town, Copenhagen (Denmark).

Extra

Runtime 59 minute
Producer BBC Scotland
Themes art painting mystery famous painting
Actors Michael Palin

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