Just walking up to the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, is a breathtaking experience. The building’s unconventional design of sharp angles, zigzagging windows and mixture of wood, concrete ...

Berlin — American architect Daniel Libeskind is a master at relating the beauty of a building to its meaning and purpose. His works are a blend of space and story -- the reason he won the intense, ...

They often say that the life of an artist is tragic by nature. Whether this generalization seems to be an overstatement when you take into account Felix Nussbaum’s story, is up to you. Yet surely you ...

The Felix Nussbaum house, a museum that opened in 1998 and is located in Nussbaum’s native city of Osnabrück in northwest Germany, closed for renovations July 26. A two-story extension designed by the ...

Just as Anne Frank told the story of a life in hiding through words, Nussbaum does so through painting. These haunting images, depictions of a life rotting away, are being showcased at the Jewish ...

Felix Nussbaum was born in Osnabrueck, Germany, and studied in Hamburg, Berlin and Rome. He and his companion, Felka Platek, settled in Belgium in 1935. In 1940, he was arrested with all other aliens ...

Three of last week’s best posts were museums! Did you see them? Check them all after the break. Felix Nussbaum Museum / Daniel Libeskind The Felix Nussbaum Museum is an extension to the Cultural ...

From memorializing the Holocaust to redesigning the World Trade Center site, for decades Daniel Libeskind has contributed new chapters to architecture. Now he’s explaining how he does it in a hybrid ...