Nussbaum was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 39. In his remaining works, his early pastoral scenes develop into performances dominated by menace and sadness that emerged during his exile in France and Belgium. An artist once said:
u201cPeople say, even if I perish, please don’t let my picture die.u201d
In accordance with this wish, his artistic legacy is still visible and accessible today. It is on permanent display in his eponymous museum in his hometown of Osnabru00fcck, designed by Daniel Libeskind and opened in 1998. exile
Born into a family of Jewish factory owners, Nussbaum was given the opportunity to develop as a painter. Stylistically, he was initially based on the work of Vincent van Gogh. She later became engaged to Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Rousseau, and Karl Hofer. After traveling to Rome and Paris, she settled in Ostend and then in Brussels. Nussbaum was arrested by Belgian authorities in 1940 because of her German nationality, and she was interned in southern France. He managed to escape and hide in German-occupied Brussels. Shortly before his release, he was arrested and later murdered at Auschwitz. The exhibition u201cFelix Nussbaum u2013 Artist in Exileu201d will be held to coincide with the laying of the first Stolperstein in Zwolle on April 6, 2014. Stolpersteine u200bu200bis the idea of u200bu200bGerman artist Gu00fcnter Demnig. The stone is placed in front of the door of a civilian deported during World War II. Thousands of these stones have already been installed in Germany and can also be found in countries such as Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The Netherlands also has many of these obstacles, called “STRUIKELSTENEN”
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