Elsner bases his drawings on photographs of studio interiors belonging to fellow artists (Althamer, Bujnowski, Dwurnik, Kulik, Kwade, Maciejowski, Sasnal).
Elsner excludes the artist’s figure leaving solely the background.
Thus understood, the spectacular aspect becomes the landscape’s indispensable feature. The motifs depicted in Elsner’s drawings however, have an exceptionally stage-like aura.
