6 February 1923, Tuesday

Drogobych. Bruno Schulz, four years after his last stay, leaves for Vienna with the intention of studying at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He is accompanied by his nephew Zygmunt Hoffmann.

Having behind him three successful exhibitions in Lviv, Vilnius and Warsaw, Schulz, already a well-formed artist, author of works that are still considered the most important in his artistic output: numerous portraits, bookplates, a catalog of books by Stanisław Weingarten* and a series of graphics called Booke of Idolatry, left Drogobych with the intention of studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Faculty of Painting. On a journey to the city of his youth* he took his younger nephew, Zygmunt Hoffmann*. (js) (transl. ms)