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Nussbaum is not well known as a member of the German Expressionist
group, but he's one of my personal favorites. This must have
book would make an important edition to any artlovers library.
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BACK
TO EXPRESSIONISTS
Selbstbildnis
(Self-Portrait)
Felix Nussbaum
Oil on Canvas 1933
This
is one of the artist's happier works. Nussbaum enjoyed a
successful career in Berlin, that is, until Germany was
plunged into the darkness of Nazi terror.
Nussbaum
was a German Jew, and as such, a target for the monsters
who came to rule Germany. His art documented the madness
that enveloped his country, and his collected works now
form a major body of work about the Jews during the Holocaust.
In order to escape persecution, the artist fled Berlin in
1937 and settled in Brussels. In 1940, after the Nazis attacked
Brussels, the authorities branded the German artist an "enemy
alien" and had him sent to a detainment camp in France...
but luckily he escaped after six months.
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The
artist went into hiding in Brussels,
but was arrested just prior to its liberation - from
there he was sent to Auschwitz where the fascists
murdered him. He was 40 years old. Today
there is a museum dedicated to Felix Nussbaum located
in Osnabrück, Germany. The Felix
Nussbaum Building is a
wing of the
Osnabrück Museum
of Cultural History where
a glorious collection of over 170 of the artist's paintings
and graphic works are housed. View Selbstbildnis
mit Judenpaß (Self-Portrait with Jewish
Pass), to see the unhappy side of Nussbaum's life.
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