Felix Nussbaum
1904–1944
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- painter
Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – after 20 September 1944) was a German-Jewish surrealist painter.
Incarceration history
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Saint-Cyprien Internment campDates unknown
- Saint-Cyprien Internment campDates unknown
Biography
Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – after 20 September 1944) was a German-Jewish surrealist painter. Nussbaum's paintings, including Self Portrait with Jewish Identity Card (1943) and Triumph of Death (1944), explore his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. His work is usually associated with the New Objectivity movement, and was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Rousseau, and Vincent van Gogh. He took refuge in Belgium after the Nazi rise to power, but was deported to Auschwitz along with his wife Felka Platek only a few months before the British liberation of Brussels on 3 September 1944.