"Ghost on the Willow", c. 1900, oil on canvas, 79 x 64 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Landscape", c. 1940, oil on canvas, 47.5 x 73 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Nude with Cupid", 1918, oil on canvas, 99 x 72 cm, Silesian Museum, Katowice
"Model", prior to 1915, pastel on paper, 59.5 x 39.5 cm, Silesian Museum, Katowice
"View from a Window", 1927-39, oil on canvas, 44 x 30 cm, National Museum, Wroclaw
"Forest", c. 1910, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Silesian Museum, Katowice
"Ceres", 1917, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92 cm, Silesian Museum, Katowice
"Self-Portrait", 1940s, oil on canvas, 64.5 x 50 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Female Nude", 1927, oil on canvas, 105 x 77 cm, National Museum, Kielce
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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