1 January 1935, Tuesday

Warsaw. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz paints a portrait of Bruno Schulz.

During his stay in Warsaw, Schulz renews his acquaintance with Witkacy, who paints his portrait during a New Year’s Eve encounter1. The sketch will be used to illustrate “Wywiad” [Interview] in Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1935, no. 17). Only a photograph has survived. 

From the account of Schulz’s friends it is known that there were at least two other portraits painted by Witkacy: one showing Schulz as Harlequin and the other appearing to be “a spinning mass” situated on a “pedestal turning into a corkscrew”2. Both are lost. (ts) (transl. ms)

 

See also: end of December 1934 – 19 January 1935*, 28 April 1935*. 

  • 1
    Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Listy II (vol. 1), edited by Tomasz Pawlak and Stefan Okołowicz, Janusz Degler, Warszawa 2014, note 1 to letter no. 64, p. 292; Jerzy Jarzębski, Schulz, Wrocław 1999, pp. 47 and 232.
  • 2
    It is about the accounts of Bogusław Marszal and Emil Górski. Qtd. in Jerzy Ficowski, Regiony wielkiej herezji i okolice. Bruno Schulz i jego mitologia, Sejny 2002, p. 122.