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Malerier af Laurits Andersen Ring fra SMK’s samling

Den danske realist og symbolist, L.A. Ring, er sammen med Vilhelm Hammershøi en af Danmarks vigtigste kunstnere fra tiden omkring 1900. Hans billeder er betagende og har en almen menneskelig kvalitet, som stadig rører os i dag.

Denne bog gennemgår et udvalg af 25 malerier fra verdens væsentligste L.A. Ring-samling, som befinder sig  på SMK. Udvalget dækker alle de centrale temaer hos Ring og viser spændvidden og omfanget af hans produktion.  I bogen gennemgås Rings livsværk, hans teknikker og metoder af specialister fra museet og suppleres af en samlet oversigt over alle kunstnerens malerier i SMK’s samling. Henrik Pontoppidans novelle ’Knokkelmanden’ er ligeledes inkluderet som en litterær parallel til L. A. Rings malerier.

Paintings by Laurits Andersen Ring from SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark

The Danish Realist and Symbolist painter Laurits Andersen Ring (1854-1933) stands among alongside Vilhelm Hammershøi as one of the most important Danish artists from the decades around 1900. His paintings are breathtaking and have a universally human quality that still touches us today.

This book features a selection of 25 paintings from the most important Ring collection in the world: the collection of SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark. Covering many aspects of Ring’s total body of work, the paintings selected here represent all his key themes and the sheer variety and complexity of his oeuvre. Ring’s art and aspects of his working methods and painting techniques are explored in texts by specialists from SMK and completed with a full list of Ring’s paintings in the collection of SMK. Henrik Pontoppidan’s short story ‘Grim Reaper’ is included as a literary parallel to the paintings of L. A. Ring.