Showing posts with label Vienna Secession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vienna Secession. Show all posts

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Wojciech Weiss



View of Giewont, 1899



Sunset, circa 1902

Fears 1905

Landscape, 1936


Seascape,  1938


A View from the Window


 Wojciech Weiss 1950 - Poranne słońce nad Barbakanem, 1950


Wojciech Weiss (1875 – 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of theYoung Poland movement. Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakówunder Leon Wyczółkowski. 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. (more on wikipedia)

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862 – 1918)

Allegory of Sculpture 1889


Female nude


Dame im Fauteuil (Lady in an Armchair), 1897
Oil on canvas, 52 x 52 cm. Private Collection


The Swamp, 1900


Foresta di abeti I, 1901


Lakeshore with Birches, 1901

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism.