In December of 1932, Felix received news that a fire had started in his Berlin studio, a space he had rented out to fellow artists for the duration of his absence.
Join our group to learn more about Jewish life in Europe: Little did he know that he would never return to his home country. In October of the same year, Felix left Berlin and moved to Rome together with his partner, Felka Platek, who was also a budding Jewish artist. In 1932, Felix applied for and was accepted to the Berlin Academy’s Villa Massimo in Rome.
Image from the digital collection of the Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The painting features the inside of the synagogue of Osnabrück.
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In 1927, Felix held his own art show and later participated in group shows and designed a series of covers for a Berlin-based art magazine. Felix’s parents decided to encourage their son to develop his natural skill and supported him as he attended different art schools across the country from Hamburg to Berlin. Phillip was also an amateur artist himself in addition to owning an ironworks firm. His parents, Phillip and Rahel, recognized their son’s budding artistic talents at a young age. He had dedicated his life to his art and spent his final years illustrating life as a Jew under the Nazi regime through his paintings, sharing his own journey and experiences as a target of persecution and the horrors that came along with being a Jew in the Holocaust, in the best way he knew how.įelix Nussbaum was born on December 11, 1904, in Osnabrück, Germany into a well-respected and well-off Jewish family. What would you do with that knowledge in hand? For Felix Nussbaum the answer was obvious. Imagine having the ability to know what the future holds, to know how death will come and to know that there is no way for you to change that. Imagine witnessing your fate unfolding before your eyes.
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