The artist emigrated to Belgium in 1935 with his later wife Felka and went underground, but they were betrayed. In the summer of 1944 they were both deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. In this painting Nussbaum portrayed himself in his hiding place as a pious Jew, together with his wife Felka and Jaqui, also a persecuted person. The only hope they have left is the map on the wall, which could open a window to the future.
Felix Nussbaum (Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany 11 December 1904 - Auschwitz-Birkenau, 9 August 1944) was a Jewish-German painter. In 1922 Nussbaum began his studies at the Hamburger Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg, but already in the summer of 1923 he enrolled at the Berlin Vereinigten Staatsschulen für Freie und Angewandte Kunst. It is believed that on 9 August 1944, he was murdered in Auschwitz.
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