Sosthène Weis

Sosthène Weis (29 January 1872 – 28 July 1941) was a prolific Luxembourgish artist who painted over 5,000 watercolors, mostly of Luxembourg City and its surroundings.

After completing high school at the Athénée in Luxembourg City where Michel Engels first introduced him to graphic art, Weis studied civil engineering from 1891 at the Polytechnic in Aachen and then at the technical university in Munich.

While most of his pictures are of the City of Luxembourg and its surroundings, he also ventured out across the whole country, painting scenes from the Moselle, the mining towns to the south and the mountains to the north.

Weis mastered the art of capturing the moment, poetically reproducing the misty light of the early morning, the heat of noon or the haze gathering in the valleys at sunset.

He would rapidly fill out the main lines of his scenes, interpreting them more and more freely until finally his pictures revealed a world of pride and prejudice.