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"Bruno Schulz - Republic of Dreams"
Warsaw, Muzeum Teatralne, January 8 - February 6, 2003
languages: Polski  / English 
 

One hundred drawings and prints by Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) - a writer, literary critic, painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.

Bruno Schulz,
from XIEGA BALWOCHWALCZA / THE BOOK OF IDOLATRY
One hundred drawings and prints by Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) - a writer, literary critic, painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. The works on display are from the collection of the Museum of Literature in Warsaw and a number of private collections. Also on view, the only known surviving oil painting by the artist, titled "SPOTKANIE / ENCOUNTER" (1920). An added attraction of the exhibition will be the murals that the artist painted on the wall of the children's room in the villa of Gestapo officer Felix Landau in the town of Drohobycz, where Schulz was born and where he spent most of his life. The murals were uncovered unexpectedly on February 9, 2001, and this will be the first opportunity Warsaw audiences have of viewing them. The exhibition will be divided into six sections titled "Miasto / City", "Wiosna / Spring", "Mityzacja rzeczywistosci / The Mythical Side of Reality", "Xiega Balwochwalcza / The Book of Idolatry", "Odwieczna Basn / Eternal Fairy Tale", and "Epilog / Epilogue".

Bruno Schulz was one of Poland's greatest 20th century prose writers and additionally an outstanding graphic artist and illustrator. He worked in near complete isolation. His artwork, which he himself viewed to be a supplement of his literary work, was discovered in the 1960s and continues to elicit far-reaching interest today. His highly expressive prints and drawings show a grotesquely deformed world dominated by women presented in surrealistic scenes from the daily life of Drohobycz. They are unique in terms of mood and manifest the artist's subtly demoniacal vision. The surviving literary works of Bruno Schulz consist of the story collections "SKLEPY CYNAMONOWE / CINNAMON SHOPS" and "SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRA / SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS", which are imbued with philosophical and artistic themes of great significance.

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