September, applies for admission to the university’s Faculty of Architecture, but is rejected, probably because the still unofficial Jewish quota had been filled.
November, departs for Milan and enrolls in the Regio Politecnico to study architecture. Friends from Bucharest, Mikhail Perlmutter and Bruno Leventer, are fellow students, as is Aldo Buzzi, who becomes a lifelong friend.
Campus of the Regio Politecnico, Milan, in the 1930s. Politecnico di Milano – Archivi Storici, Archivio Storico di Ateneo.Steinberg’s identity card, issued by the city of Milan, January 1934. Politecnico di Milano – Archivi Storici, Archivio Storico di Ateneo.Steinberg with Bruno Leventer, his Bucharest friend and fellow Politecnico student, Milan, c. 1934-36. Saul Steinberg Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Returns to Bucharest for summer vacations through 1937.
Postcard sent to Aldo Buzzi from Bucharest, August 21, 1937. The Saul Steinberg Foundation.Postcard sent to Aldo Buzzi from Bucharest, August 21, 1937. The Saul Steinberg Foundation.Steinberg and his mother, Rosa, Bucharest, 1930s. Collection of Daniela Roman.
