Felix Nussbaum

Felix Nussbaum
Self Portrait with Jewish Identity Card (1943)
Born(1904-12-11)11 December 1904
Died9 August 1944(1944-08-09) (aged 39)
NationalityGerman
Known forPainting
MovementNew Objectivity
SpouseFelka Platek
Websitewww.felix-nussbaum.de
Self-Portrait of the German-Jewish surrealist Felix Nussbaum who was also interred in Camp St. Cyprien. He painted this while he was on the run in Belgium after escaping

Felix Nussbaum (11 December 1904 – 9 August 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.