Jakub Schikaneder was a Czech painter known for his soft cityscape paintings with very melancholic and lonely moods, often depicting lower class people. Most of his works seem to take place in autumn or winter, at night or sunset, and are set in his hometown of Prague and on the river Vltava. He has been compared to painters like John Atkinson Grimshaw.The color tonality of his paintings is a reference for the visual of the film.
