Last name: Schulz
Name/names: Bruno
Also known as:
Born: 12 July 1892 (Drohobycz, Ukraine)
Died: 19 November 1942 (Drohobycz, Ukraine).
Bruno Schulz – He was born 12 VII 1892 r. in Drohobycz. He was the son of a blue merchant Jakub Schulz and Henrietta from Hendel Kuhmarker. The family belonged to the environment of Galician Jews, However, it did not cultivate Jewish traditions and spoke Polish.
W 1902 r. Schulz started studying at the real junior high school. He was already making drawings testifying to his complexes and masochistic tendencies. W 1910 r. The writer passed the high school diploma. During World War I he stayed in Vienna, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts for several months. Soon, however, he returned to Drohobych. He was constantly dealing with artistic activities. Initially, it was painting and drawing, later he also dealt with writing. From 1924 r. He worked as a drawing teacher, manual works and mathematics at the Junior High School in Drohobycz. It was a period significant in the biography of the writer of literary acquaintance: with Władysław Riff – A talented student of Polish studies, Stanisławem Ignacym Witkiewiczem, Debora Vogel, w końcu z “first lady” literatury dwudziestolecia Z. Nałkowska. Thanks to her help in 1933 r. zostały wydane Cinnamon stores. Do 1939 r. Schulz dealt with literary and critical creativity. After entering the Drohobych of the Nazi army, the writer was transferred to the Jewish ghetto. Udawało mu się przetrwać dzięki care
gestapowca Landaua. Schulz's Warsaw friends prepared false documents and escape plan for him. On the eve of its performance, 19 XI 1942 r., The writer was shot.
Literary work: STARTS STATEMENTS – Cinnamon stores (1933), Sanatorium under the hourglass (1936), stories – Autumn, Republic of Dreams, Comet, Homeland oraz bogaty zbiór pism krytycznych. The writer's abundant correspondence was mostly destroyed or disappeared.
Painting: Only one watercolor survived from among the rich collection of artistic works, cykl grafik Book of idolatry.