Collection Art II
In the Camp
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- Title: In the Camp (Prison Camp)
- Artist: Felix Nussbaum (1904 Osnabrück - 1944 Auschwitz)
- Date: 1940
- Material/Technique: Oil/canvas
- Size: 47 x 42 cm
In his painting In the Camp (Prison Camp), Nussbaum portrays
not only his own individual experiences, but also describes the
situation of emigrants in general. As a Jew, the painter was forced
to flee in the face of National Socialism. After the attack of
the German armed forces on Belgium, the German Felix Nussbaum
was branded as an "enemy foreigner" and was deported
to unoccupied France. Painting was for Nussbaum a means of fighting
for survival and exorcising to horror which he experienced. In
1944, he was sent to his death on the last train which left Belgium
for Auschwitz.
