Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) was a Polish writer and draftsman from Drohobych in Galicia. He studied architecture and worked as an art teacher at a secondary school in his hometown. He is best known for the story collections “The Street of Crocodiles” and “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,” which are characterized by fantastical and grotesque dream imagery. Schulz was killed in Drohobych in 1942 during the German occupation.