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in New York in 1985. Soon after, the city's Museum of Cultural History set aside two rooms for a permanent exhibition. In 1991, Osnabrück decided to dedicate a museum to one of its natives, Felix Nussbaum, a Jewish painter murdered in the Holocaust. In 1996,
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where Nussbaum painted his last canvasses. The metal volume displays the artist's newly discovered paintings. The interior is labyrinthine and many paths lead to dead ends. The museum's sides face three cities where Nussbaum studied art:
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volume houses Nussbaum's prewar art. The second volume, which slices violently through the first, is made from concrete and contains the paintings Nussbaum made while in hiding from the
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By the 1980s, the city of Osnabrück, Germany, had begun to embrace Nussbaum as a native son. An exhibition of his major works was organized at the
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Pearman, Hugh (July 27 – August 1, 1998). "Walls hold back the forgetting". Zeitgeist. pp. 26–27.
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Worsley, Giles (July 22, 1998). "The museum of no way out". The Daily Telegraph. p. 20.
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to design the building, which was completed in 1998. The new museum was inaugurated by
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where he was killed. The galleries house approximately 160 of Nussbaum's paintings.
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Glancey, Jonathan (July 27, 1998). "Right side of the wall".
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The museum consists of three intersecting "volumes." The
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"Reviled in Life, Embraced in Death; A German Museum Honors an Artist Lost to the Holocaust"
The New York Times
"Ein Museum gegen das Vergessen - Eröffnung des Felix-Nussbaum-Hauses von Daniel Libeskind in Osnabrück"

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