Bruno Schulz (1892 Drohobych - 1942 Drohobych), "Odwieczna baśń" I

Condition
framed work

Provenance
collection of Grazyna Kulczyk

Exhibited
Art Stations, Malt House, 18.03.2007-17.06.2007

Literature
Bruno Schulz, The Book of Images, collected, compiled, commented by Jerzy Ficowski, Gdansk 2012, p. 238 (il.).
GK Collection #1. Collection of art of Grazyna Kulczyk, substantive binding, texts: Paweł Leszkowicz, Poznań 2007, pp. 104-107 (ill.)
Bruno Schulz 1892-1942. Drawings and archives from the collection of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, edited by Wojciech Chmurzyński, Warsaw 1992, item 20 (ill.).
Bruno Schulz 1892-1942, Das grpahische Werk, ed. Wojciech Chmurzyński, München 1992, cat. no. 20.
Bruno Schulz, Xięga bałwochwalcza, prepared for print and with an introductory word by Jerzy Ficowski, Warsaw 1988, p. 69 (ill.)

Biography
Bruno Schulz was born on July 12, 1892 in Drohobych, to a family of assimilated Galician Jews. He is primarily known as a writer, author of Cinnamon Shops (1934) and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), but was also a painter, graphic artist and draftsman. Beginning in 1924, he worked as a teacher of drawings at a junior high school in Drohobych. Schulz's artwork - with its subject matter and special dreamlike mood - is connected with his writing; some drawings are illustrations to his own works. In 1920- 22, using the cliché-verre technique, he produced a series of more than twenty engravings of a specifically erotic nature collected in The Book of the Idol. He also created oil paintings, but these works, now lost, are mostly known only from old photographs. The only surviving canvas is Meeting (1920), a painting that recently appeared on the antiquarian market and later found its way into the collection of the Warsaw Museum of Literature. In the 1920s and 1930s, the artist showed his prints and paintings several times, including at exhibitions at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery (1922), TPSP in Lviv (1922), Vilnius (1923), Lviv and Truskavets (1930), and TPSP in Krakow (1931).