before August 15, 1920

Drohobych. Bruno Schulz creates an oil painting depicting a chance meeting in the street between a young Hasid and two elegantly dressed women. He offers the painting with a dedication to his friend Stanisław Weingarten for his 30th birthday.

It is the only preserved painting by Schulz, apart from the scenes painted on the walls of the nursery in Landau’s villa. It appeared in 1992 at an auction in Łódź and was purchased by the Museum of Literature in Warsaw1. The Meeting is an oil composition painted on cardboard with the dimensions of 53.5×70 cm. It has an original gilded frame. On the face of the painting, in the centre at the bottom, there is the author’s dedication written with a pen or a thin brush: “To dearest Staszek (August 15, 1920), Bruno”2. (sr) (transl. mw) 

  • 1
    The sensational circumstances of the painting’s purchase were presented by Wojciech Chmurzyński (cf. “Bruno Schulz i pieniądze”, Gazeta Wyborcza 1992, No. 84, p. 11).
  • 2
    Wojciech Chmurzyński, “Spotkanie ze ‘Spotkaniem’, czyli kilka uwag o obrazie olejnym Brunona Schulza”, [in:] Bruno Schulz 1892–1942. Katalog-pamiętnik wystawy „Bruno Schulz. Ad Memoriam” w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza, edited by Wojciech Chmurzyński, Warszawa 1995, p. 209.