"Parisian Cafe (Cafe d'Arcourt)", 1899, oil on canvas, National Museum, Poznan
"Sadness", 1898, National Museum, Poznan
"Melancholic (Totenmesse)", 1894, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow

"Landscape", oil on canvas, 38 x 60.5 cm, private collection

A drastic rejection of accepted principles of depiction was made in the youthful works of Wojciech Weiss. The impact of Stanislaw Przybyszewski and his theory of the "naked soul", a source of fascination for the Cracow milieu, endowed these paintings with ecstatic expression, whose violence and pan-eroticism are comparable only with the art of Edvard Munch, the great Norwegian artist of the period. [*]

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