Overview
Felix Nussbaum (1904–44) was a German Jewish painter, killed in Auschwitz by the Nazis. After more than four decades in obscurity, this distinguished artist was brought to light with the opening of Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, a museum dedicated to his oeuvre in his native city of Osnabrück in northern Germany. Nussbaum life, work, and fate are reflected in an expressive structure designed by noted American architect Daniel Libeskind. In December 2018, German artist Brigitte Waldach produced for Felix-Nussbaum-Haus an impressive work, Existenz, consisting of three-dimensional drawings that involve viewers in a dialogue with Nussbaum’s paintings, incorporating excerpts from Nussbaum’s letters, and a sound collage. Illustrated throughout, Existenz: Brigitte Waldach—Felix-Nussbaum-Haus documents the environment Waldach has created within Libeskind’s architecture to encourage viewers to experience and reflect on Nussbaum’s art from our contemporary perspective.
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Author: Museumsquartier der Stadt Osnabrück ,
Mechthild Achelwilm ,
Fritz Backhaus ,
Monika Grutters
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Imprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
ISBN: 9783858816580
ISBN 10: 3858816582
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 09 September 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English, German
Author Information
Mechthild Achelwilm has been curator of contemporary art at Museumsquartier Osnabruck since 2018. Fritz Backhaus was appointed director of collections at Deutsches Historiches Museum (German museum of history) in Berlin in 2017. Monika Grutters is a member of the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament, currently serving as Minister of State for Culture and Media Affairs at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. Nils-Arne Kassens is director of Museumsquartier Osnabruck. Daniel Libeskind is an American architect of Polish-Jewish descent. His much-debated designs include Berlin's Jewish Museum and the masterplan for the reconstruction of World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as many public buildings in Europe, the US, and Canada. Stefan Luddemann is a cultural journalist and writer, working as an editor in charge of Culture and Knowledge with NOZ Media / Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung in Osnabruck. Brigitte Waldach lives and works as an artist in Berlin. She is a graduate of Berlin's University of the Arts, where she has been a master student of painter Georg Baselitz. Her work is represented in the collection of various important museums in Germany and abroad, such as the Albertina in Vienna, Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Stavanger Art Museum, Kupferstichkabinett and Berlinische Galerie in Berlin.
