Felix
Nussbaum

Felix Nussbaum (German. Felix Nussbaum; 11 December 1904, osnabrück — August 2, 1944, Auschwitz) was a German painter, representative of the artistic style of New objectivity.

Born in the family of a merchant middle class of Jewish origin.

1922-1923 — study at the State school of applied arts in Hamburg, in the class of Fritz Behnke.

1923 — moved to Berlin

Of 1924-25 — continued his studies at the joint school of liberal arts at the Cesar Klein and Paul Plante

1929 — works as a freelance artist

1932 — the state grant and the state prize of the Prussian Academy of arts, through which the artist travels to Rome, a student guest at the Villa Massimo

1932 — the death of a large number of works of the artist in a fire in his Berlin Atelier; F. Nussbaum collaborates in the journal "Section" (Querschnitt Der); participates in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession

1933 — continues his studies in Rome; in connection with anti-Semitic speeches forced to go to Alassio

1934 — the flight to Belgium

1940 — F. Nussbaum with the beginning of world war II was in Brussels as a "hostile alien". arrested in Saint-Ciprofloxacin, and then was transferred to Bordeaux, from which runs in Brussels

1942, fall — after the publication in Belgium of the new laws directed against the Jews, throws her Atelier in Brussels and flees the city with his wife, They Platek, last two years of his life the family Nussbaum hiding from the Nazi authorities and living underground

1944 arrested and deported along with other Jews sent from prefabricated camp Mechelen in the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.