German Historical Museum
Threesome
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- Title: Threesome
- Artist: Felix Nussbaum (1904 Osnabrück - 1944 Auschwitz)
- Date: 1944
- Material/Technique: Oil/Canvas
- Size: 100 x 80 cm
In Threesome, painted in January 1944, Nussbaum portrays himself as a pious Jew in hiding with his wife Felka and his son Jaqui. The triangular composition is reminiscent of renaissance sacral art. The painter identifies himself fully with the religion to which he was thrown back as a result of the persecution by the National Socialism, whereas his wife merely endures the situation. Felix Nussbaum describes here in one of his last pictures the situation of all those persecuted which lies somewhere between fear of death and vague hope.
