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3 unusual facts about Felix Nussbaum


Felix Nussbaum

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.

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.

In December, his brother – the last of the family – died from exhaustion in the camp at Stutthof.


Flemish painting

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.


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Larry Abramson

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.