![Lesser Ury - Mädchen im Romanischen Café (Berlin) [1911]](http://c1.staticflickr.com/1/256/19038829020_0fe5f52ed6_o.jpg)
Lesser Ury (Bimbaum, November 7, 1861 – Berlin, October 18, 1931) was a German Jewish Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. His subjects were landscapes, urban landscapes, and interior scenes, treated in an Impressionistic manner that ranged from the subdued tones of figures in a darkened interior to the effects of streetlights at night to the dazzling light of foliage against the summer sky. Ury is especially noted for his paintings of nocturnal cafe scenes and rainy streets. He developed a habit of repeating these compositions in order to sell them while retaining the originals, and these quickly made and inferior copies have harmed his reputation.
[Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas]