František Kupka

The above image, The Yellow Scale, is on the cover of my copy of Joris-Karl Huysman's 1884 novel Against Nature, which I'm reading at the moment, and is attributed to Franz Kupka. Presumably this is the Czech artist František Kupka (1871-1957), but if John Coulthart doesn't know, then I sure as hell don't.

First associated with the Symbolist movement, Kupka worked for a time as an illustrator in Paris, and later became one of the earliest Modernist painters to abandon figuration. The images below are from a somewhat mind-boggling Flickr set of what seems to be mostly Czech art and architecture.