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    • Painting: Nussbaum, Mastenwald

      Felix Nussbaum: Mastenwald, painting (1935)

      Bidding farewell to Ostende, Belgium, Felix Nussbaum painted the painting Mastenwald. The painter had spent several months in the port city in 1935 before moving on to Brussels.
    • Painting: Felix Nussbaum, Orgelmann

      Felix Nussbaum: Orgelmann, painting (1943)

      The last survivor of the catastrophe sits with his back to an apocalyptic urban scene: an organ grinder, the melancholy alter-ego of the painter Felix Nussbaum. He is leaning against the long since silenced organ and looks contemplatively into the emptiness.
    • Painting: Felix Nussbaum, Selbstbildnis mit Maske

      Felix Nussbaum: Selbstbildnis mit Maske und Schalltrichter [ Self-Portrait with Mask and Paper Horn], painting (ca. 1936)

      During his years of exile, masks took on a central role in the self-portraits of the painter Felix Nussbaum. Even before, Nussbaum had used masks as a metaphor to give expression to the two-faced character of reality.
    • Painting: Felix Nussbaum

      Felix Nussbaum: Self-portrait with Tea Towel, painting (1935)

      The effect of exile on one’s own facial features was the subject of a series of self-portraits by painter Felix Nussbaum which were created in front of a mirror beginning in 1936. Under the deformation of his face and the external reality laid over his face like a grimace, Nussbaum sought an inner, undisguised self.