Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

If you weren’t able to make it over to the 92nd Street Y on Mon­day night for the trib­ute to Bruno Schulz, or even if you were, you can learn more about Schulz and his art from The New York Times. The Times pub­lished the arti­cle ​“Behind Fairy Tale Draw­ings, Walls Talk of Unspeak­able Cru­el­ty” back in Feb­ru­ary, which dis­cuss­es the fas­ci­na­tion behind this artist and writer, whose life was trag­i­cal­ly cut short by the Nazis. Before Schulz’s untime­ly death, he was forced to illus­trate a children’s play­room in a Nazi officer’s home and the arti­cle includes a slideshow of these wall draw­ings, cur­rent­ly on dis­play at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. To read the arti­cle, and view the slideshow, please vis­it here.

And, for more infor­ma­tion about Bruno Schulz, please visit:

The Art of Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz on Wikipedia

Above pho­to cred­it: Bruno Schulz (1892−1942) Self-Por­trait, Meczenst­wo Wal­ka, Zagla­da Zydów Polsce 1939 – 1945. Poland. No. 175