Featured Artists
Irena Weissowa, pseudonym Aneri, formerly known as Irena Silberberg (1888–1981) – a symbolist painter, author of landscapes, still lifes and portraits. At first she studied in Warsaw with artists strongly related to the symbolist movement, such as X. Dunikowski and K. Krzyzanowski. Then, for a short time, she studied in Munich with Hungarian professor, Szymon Hollosy. In 1907 she became a student of Wojciech Weiss and in 1908 also his wife. She has abandoned decadence topics and studies nature, colour and light. In 1913 Aneri goes to Venice to paint outdoors. Starting from 1925 she spends almost every summer in Nice, on the Cote d’Azur, painting Villefranche and Monte Carlo. Colours of her paintings become richer. Irena Weissowa takes part in numerous exhibitions using a pseudonym Aneri (an anagram of her name) to avoid comparisons with her husband’s art.
Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950) - a distinguished painter and draughtsman; a student, professor and Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Born in Romania, in the family of political emigrants, he began his education in Lvov from where he moved to Cracow, the city his life was closely bound with. He took additional studies in Paris, Florence and Rome (1899-1902). As one of the greatest Polish symbolist painters, Weiss reflects in his works the decadent atmosphere of the epoch at the same time heralding the expressionist tendencies. After 1905, he shifted towards colourism, displaying a special colour transformation in the ‘white period’ (1905-1912), only to be permeated with vivid colours and strong volume later on. His paintings were dominated by landscapes and nudes. He also created large compositions, frequently intriguing the viewer with their hidden symbolism. Weiss’ oeuvre significantly influenced young generation of Polish artists who became an avangarde. Apart from the Foundation, many of Weiss' paintings are among the collections of the National Museums in Cracow, Poznan and Warsaw.
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Irena Silberberg - 1906
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Irena Silberberg - 1906
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Wojciech Weiss - 1898
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Wojciech Weiss - 1899
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Wojciech Weiss - 1904
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Wojciech Weiss - 1902
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Wojciech Weiss - 1898
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Wojciech Weiss - 1908-1909
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Wojciech Weiss - 1910
