Felix-Nussbaum-Haus

The Felix Nussbaum House, built to a design by the American architect Daniel Libeskind, displays numerous works the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Osnabrück-born artist Felix Nussbaum, who was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of forty. Nussbaum's visual oeuvre ranges from his childhood and youth in the upper middle-class Jewish family in Osnabrück, to his emigration to Rome and Brussels, to his perseverance in hiding in constant fear of the Gestapo's henchmen. The permanent exhibition enables an intensive examination of the life and work of the artist as well as the history of the persecution and murder of European Jews in the Third Reich. On the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday in 2004, the exhibition "Zeit im Blick - Felix Nussbaum und die Moderne" (Time in View - Felix Nussbaum and Modernism) was shown, presenting Nussbaum's works in the art-historical context of his contemporaries, elective relatives and companions in fate.