Collection - Felix Nussbaum

"If I perish – do not let my images die": Like no other artist of the first half of the century, the painter Felix Nussbaum, born in 1904 in Osnabrück and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, captured all the experiences of the decades following the First World War in his paintings and reflected them as part of his own circumstances, into which he was thrust as a Jew by the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. No one affected has documented the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe artistically like Nussbaum. For him, painting became an act of resistance in his hopeless situation, as it preserved his human dignity and gave him the strength to survive for a long time. He was a chronicler of this time and became its victim. A unique exhibition venue for Nussbaum's works is the museum designed by American architect Daniel Libeskind in 1998. The concept of the building creates a spatial context in which the tragic connection between the life and work of the artist born in Osnabrück becomes the dominant impression. The Felix Nussbaum House is dedicated to preserving and presenting the historically and artistically valuable legacy of Felix Nussbaum to the public.