Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), born in Drohobycz, in Galicia, into an assimilated Jewish family, the son of a cloth merchant, studied architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, then fine arts in Vienna. From 1924 to 1941, he taught drawing at the secondary school of his native town. A draughtsman and engraver as much as a writer, he received the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1938. Confined in the Drohobycz ghetto under the German occupation, forced to paint for an SS officer, he was shot dead in the street by another SS man, Karl Günther, on 19 November 1942.

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• Short storiesThe Street of CrocodilesSklepy cynamonoweBruno Schulz · 1934LiteraturePublic domain