22 May 1921, Sunday

Drogobych. A collective exhibition is held in the auditorium of the King Władysław Jagiełło Secondary School; Bruno Schulz is part of it.

Adolf Bienenstock*, who works as an arts teacher in the gymnasium in Drohobych, speaks at the opening of the exhibition1. His expressionist works are also presented there; his wife, Ernestyna Bienenstock, exhibits paintings created with the application method. Experienced Lviv painters – Kazimierz Łotocki (1882–1942), Antoni Markowski (1878—1949 and Ludwik Misky (1884–1838) – participate in the exhibition, too, presenting a variety of landscape paintings; there is also a younger artist from Przemyśl – Marian Stroński (1892–1977). The exhibition is supposed to last two weeks and end with the sale of exhibits2.

According to a review*, Schulz shows some works exhibited before* in Borysław*, supplemented by “a pencil picture of Omphale [...] and a colourful painting Girls”3. (um) (transl. mw)

See also: 29 May 1921*, exhibitions until 1942. 

  • 1
    Initially, the exhibition was planned to open a week earlier; it was assumed that Włodzimierz Błocki would also take part in the event, while Stroński was not announced. See: Богдан Лазорак, Леонід Тимошенко, Леся Хомич, Ігор Чава, Відомий і невідомий Бруно Шульц (соціокультурний портрет Дрогобича), наукова редакція Леоніда Тимошенка, Дрогобич, p. 160.
  • 2
    Ibidem.
  • 3
    Al. Stewe [Michał Friedländer], „Z wystawy obrazów”, Świt. Organ urzędników naftowych w Borysławiu 1921, no. 11, pp. 6–7, cf: Богдан Лазорак, Леонід Тимошенко, Леся Хомич, Ігор Чава, op. cit., pp. 229. See: also: „Wystawa obrazów w Drohobyczu”, Chwila 1921, no. 849, p. 10 (“Chronicle” section).