Wojciech Weiss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Wojciech Weiss

Polish painter

Date of Birth: 04-May-1875

Place of Birth: Leorda, Botoșani County, Romania

Date of Death: 07-Dec-1950

Profession: painter, university teacher

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Wojciech Weiss

  • 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 Stanislaw Weiss and Maria Kopaczynska.
  • He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczólkowski.
  • Weiss originally painted historical or mythological paintings, but later switched to Expressionism after being profoundly influenced by Stanislaw 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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