Féelix Nussbaum in the 1930s and 1940s and the refugees in nowadays

Nussbaum was born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1904, and died in Auschwitz in 9 August 1944, 39 years old. Before, he was taken to the detention camp Saint Cyprien, from where he managed to escape. He painted the reality of the destruction provoked by nazism.

Legend: Prisioners in Saint-Cyprien (1942)

Osnabrück has a Museum with the name of Félix Nussbaum, with much of his works. In 1995, the Osnabrück contest for the realisation of the Felix Nussbaum Haus was won by the American architect Daniel Libeskind. The extension based on plans by American architect Daniel Libeskind links the Cultural History Museum with the Felix Nussbaum Haus retaining the basic concept of the Felix Nussbaum Haus, opened in 1998. Materials of wood, concrete and zinc which determine the early building complexes of the Felix Nussbaum Haus, are complemented by a grey-coloured façade. The arrangement of the windows with their asymmetrically pointed shapes imitate the façade design of the Felix Nussbaum Haus, lending the building a distinctive appearance. While the extension gives visitors direct access to the Cultural History Museum, the exhibition rooms of the Felix Nussbaum Haus are reached via an enclosed glass corridor. In 2011 the Felix Nussbaum Haus and the Cultural History Museum Osnabrück opened their doors again after almost a year of reconstruction.

Legend: Self-portray with tea towel (dish towel) (around 1933)

Legend: Self Portrait with Jewish Identity Card (1943)

In this painting, I particularly like the white blossoms that appear in the top of the painting, as a sign of hope (for me, at least). 

The visit to Nussbaum Museum was a vivid experience about the tragedy of the nazism in Europe, but it also remembers me the situation of refugees in Europe in nowadays.