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Polish novelist and painter (1892-1942)

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Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer and visual artist who lived during the early twentieth century until his death in 1942. He is significant for his imaginative literary works and artistic contributions to Polish culture during a transformative period in European history.

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Born
1892
Died
1942
Works
70

Top works

  • Krókódílastrætið
  • Cinnamon shops
  • Żydzi w Dąbrowie Górniczej
  • T︠s︡ynamonovi kramnyt︠s︡i ; Sanatorii︠a︡ pid Klepsydroii︠u︡
  • Towards Schulz

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Bruno Schulz is an alternative rock band founded in 2003 Kielce, Poland, currently residing in Łódź. Since the release of their debut album Ekspresje, Depresje, Euforie and a success of promotional single - Gdy Więdną Kwiaty in 2007, Bruno Schulz have remained one of the most recognisable polish artist that do not belong to any major label. Their psychedelic, disquieting sound along with the very energetic, atypical drumming in the foreground <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bruno+Schulz">Read

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Quotes

  • I have never seen the Old Testament prophets, but at the sight of that man floored by divine anger, widely straddling his enormous porcelain urinal and shielded by the tornado of his arms, a cloud of desperate contortions, above which his voice rose still higher, alien and hard—I came to understand the divine anger of holy men.
  • He occasionally placed two chairs back-to-back, and, supporting himself with his hands on the backrests, swung his legs back and forth, his radiant eyes searching our faces for looks of admiration and encouragement. It seemed he had become entirely reconciled with God.
  • Only today do I understand the lonely heroism with which he gave single-handed battle against the boundless element of boredom numbing the town. Bereft of all support, without acknowledgement on our part, that astonishing man defended the lost cause of poetry. He was a wondrous mill, into whose hoppers the bran of the empty hours was poured, bursting into bloom in its mechanism with all of the colours and aromas of oriental spices.
  • “Were I to cast aside respect before the Creator and seek to make a jest in criticism of creation, then I should demand, ‘Less content and more form!’ Oh, how that loss of content would unburden the world! More modesty in purposes, more restraint in claims, gentlemen demiurges, and the world would be more exquisite!” cried my father as his hands were laying bare Paulina’s white calf from the fetters of her stocking.
  • It is worth noting how, in coming into contact with that unusual man, all things withdrew, as it were, to the root of their being, rebuilt their phenomenon down to its metaphysical core. They returned to their primordial idea, only to betray it at that point and lurch into those dubious, daring, and equivocal regions which I shall here succinctly call, the Regions of the Great Heresy.
  • Adela returned on luminous mornings, like Pomona from the fire of the enkindled day, tipping from her basket the colourful beauty of the sun: glistening wild cherries, full of water under their transparent skins, mysterious black cherries whose aroma surpassed that which would be realised in their taste, and apricots, in whose golden pulp lay the core of the long afternoons.

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date of birth
1892-07-12
date of death
1942-12-19
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name in native language
Bruno Schulz
start of work period
1912-01-01
end of work period
1942-01-01
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Bruno Schulz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish Jewish writer, artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel The Messiah. Schulz was shot and killed by a Gestapo officer in 1942 while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.

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