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Chopin II (a, b) Chopin II b
Wojciech Weiss1899
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Warsaw, Poland
Two sketches for Chopin's portrait.
Weiss, drawing on the philosophy of Schopenhauer, presents life and death as mutually complementary states. This portrait, like a death mask, expresses the then popular idea of "life-unto-death". Such an understanding of human existance was the nucleus in many great works of European decadence.
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- Title: Chopin II (a, b) Chopin II b
- Creator: Wojciech Weiss, Wojciech Weiss
- Date Created: 1899, 1899
- Physical Dimensions: h 30 w 22, h 30 w 22
- Type: Drawing, Drawing
- Medium: Charcoal drawing on paper, Charcoal drawing on paper
- Art Movement: Expressionism, Expressionism
- Art Form: Drawing, Drawing
- Support: Paper, Paper
- Depicted Person: Fryderyk Chopin, Fryderyk Chopin
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