The Funeral March

The Funeral March is the last, unfinished work of the artist who died young. It shows a nocturne, imaginary landscape with a sky covered with clouds, dark silhouettes of trees, bells swinging among them and a flock of circling, black birds. The scene presented in the landscape is a painterly commentary on Kornel Ujejski's poem The Funeral March, composed under the influence of the famous piece by Fryderyk Chopin. The work devoted to the most tragic experience of man, due to the dramatic tension contained in it and the ability to evoke strong emotions in the viewer, has been compared to The Scream by Edvard Munch.