Demon (In the Cafe)

Wojciech Weiss was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement. Young Poland was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature, and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism which followed the suppression of the 1863 January Uprising against the occupying army of Imperial Russia. Młoda Polska promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau. Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczółkowski. Weiss originally painted historical or mythological paintings, but later switched to Expressionism. Weiss later became a member of the Vienna Secession. He was one of the first Polish Art Nouveau poster designers.

Thanks, Wojciech for the inspiration!