Collection Art II
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.
