Wojciech Weiss
Melancholic, 1894, painting by Wojciech Weiss
Born	4 May 1875 Leorda , Bukovina , Austria-Hungary
Died	7 December 1950 Krakow , Poland
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	Painter

Wojciech Weiss (4 May 1875 – 7 December 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.

Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczy?ska. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under Leon Wyczołkowski . Weiss originally painted historical or mythological paintings, but later switched to Expressionism after being profoundly influenced by Stanisław Przybyszewski . Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession . He was one of the first Polish Art Nouveau poster designers. Near the end of his life, he made several significant contributions to paintings of the Socialist realism in Poland .

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  Obsession (1899-1900), National Museum in Warsaw .
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  Manifesto (1949-1950), National Museum in Warsaw .

External links [ edit ]

• Media related to Wojciech Weiss at Wikimedia Commons
• Short biography at Wojciech Weiss Foundation Museum Archived 2012-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Numerous Wojciech Weiss paintings
• Wojciech Weiss links Archived 2016-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Extensive Essay and selection of paintings from Weiss Archived 2015-01-20 at the Wayback Machine

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