Chopin II (a, b) Chopin II a

Two sketches for Chopin's portrait.

"He has an anaemic complexion and almost transparent skin, through which the most delicate network of veins and blood vessels appear blue, the figure is slender and fluid, with slim and infinitely delicate shapes, which in his every movement reveal the unmatched grace seen in extinguished aristocratic families; in the abyss of his pupils shines the excessive intelligence of children whose sudden deaths have been foretold by the people". This description of Chopin, presented by Stanisław Przybyszewski's essay Zur Psychologie des Individuums. I. Chopin und Nietzsche (1891), finds its expression in this drawing by Weiss.