His allegories and large-scale religious visions established him as the herald of a new spirit, the precursor of Jugendstil, to which his involvement with the art poster belongs. ‘Harmony’ dates from this later period. Painted two years before his last trip to his homeland, it was produced in the context of an art competition organised to mark the centenary of the German piano manufacturers Rud. Ibach Sohn, in 1894. Gyzis, who was proclaimed the winner with ‘Harmony’, had also painted this work as a unique approach to the subject.