Drohobych. Bruno Schulz meets the painter Natan Spiegel, who supports his earlier idea of going to Paris with drawings and organising his own exhibition.
We only know about this meeting from the mention Schulz makes in his letter to Romana Halpern from March 3 that year: “N. Spiegel, one of the most outstanding Jewish painters, came here to admire my drawings and advised me to go to Paris to organise an exhibition”. The letter shows that Schulz already thought about leaving and Spiegel only supported him in this intention.
Nothing else is known about his relationship with Spiegel. Almost the same age as Schulz, he was a painter and illustrator and belonged to the Łódź artistic groups “Srebrny Wóz” and “Start”. In the 1930s, he lived in Radomsko, from where he often went to Kazimierz Dolny to paint en plein air. He organised exhibitions of his works, among others, in Warsaw and Lviv in 1937. Before that, he had made many artistic trips around Europe; in 1924 he exhibited his work at the Autumn Salon in Paris, and in 1930 he had a solo exhibition in London. So it was easier for him to persuade Schulz to follow his path and show the world his drawings, which he liked so much. (sr) (transl. mw)
