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Felix Nussbaum was a German artist of the first half of the twentieth century of Jewish origin. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, representative of the artistic style "New Objectivity".
Felix Nussbaum in 1934, fleeing Nazism, emigrated to Belgium. In 1936, together with his friend Michael Loewen, he conceived the idea of creating a children's animated film "Pete and Peggs", which was never realized, but his black-and-white drawings were preserved. Nussbaum created his major works in the last years of his life, spent in Brussels before his arrest in 1944. In his works, the artist artist artistically and with rare expressiveness depicted the Nazi persecution and murder of Jews in Europe. He himself died in the Auschwitz concentration camp six months before its liberation by Soviet troops.
