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Sealed for Eternity- Bruno Schultz and Drohobycz

Jul 27 - Oct 6 2019       ul. Wólczańska 31/33
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Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. He wrote The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,  drawing inspiration from specific local and ethnic sources, looking inward and close to home rather than to the world at large. 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 lived most of his life in Drohobych, a small town in what is now Ukraine. Felix Landau, Gestapo officer, who admired Schulz's artwork, protected him during the war in exchange for painting a mural in his Drohobych residence. Despite that, Schulz was shot and killed by another Gestapo officer while walking back home toward Drohobych Ghetto with a loaf of bread. The exhibition rests upon three themes - In the City of Dreams, Bruno Schulz - the Odd Poet, and Schulz's Łódź Episode. It features photographs, maps, postcards from Drohobych, reviews of The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, as well as works of artists inspired by Bruno Schulz. The exhibition is open to the public from 26.07 to 06.10.2019.


 

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Open 11:00-18:00. Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00, Closed Mon. Jul 27 2019 - Oct 6 2019
Villa Gallery/Chimera Gallery
ul. Wólczańska 31/33
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