After Nazi Germany attacked Belgium in 1940, Nussbaum was arrested by Belgian police as a "hostile alien" German, and was subsequently taken to the Saint-Cyprien camp in France.
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In his earlier works, Nussbaum was heavily influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Henri Rousseau and he eventually paid homage to Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà as well.
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In December, his brother – the last of the family – died from exhaustion in the camp at Stutthof.
Felix Mendelssohn | Felix Frankfurter | Felix the Cat | Félix Guattari | María Félix | Félix Trinidad | Felix Klein | Julie Felix | Felix Rodriguez | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Felix Da Housecat | José Félix Ribas Municipality, Aragua | Felix von Luckner | Felix Unger | Félix Rodríguez (Central Intelligence Agency) | Felix Magath | Félix Fénéon | Allyson Felix | Felix Werder | Felix the Cat: The Movie | Félix Resurrección Hidalgo | Felix Dzerzhinsky | Felix da Housecat | Felix Cavaliere | Rachel Félix | Felix Silla | Félix Savón | Felix Nussbaum | Felix Mottl | Felix Gonzalez-Torres |
Although James Ensor stood apart from his contemporaries, this innovator in 19th-century art significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.
This series was exhibited at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Museum in Osnabrück, Germany and at the Chaim Atar Museum of Art on Kibbutz Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley.