Jakob Nussbaum

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Jakob Nussbaum (born January 8, 1873 in Rhina ; died December 19, 1936 in Kinneret on the Sea of ​​Galilee in the Mandate Palestine ) was a painter of German impressionism . Alongside Paul Klimsch , he was one of two Frankfurt artists in the Berlin Secession .

Ottilie Roederstein: Portrait of the painter Jakob Nussbaum (1909)
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Life

At the request of his father, Nussbaum first practiced a commercial apprenticeship in his parents' shop in Frankfurt am Main after completing secondary school . Since he was already showing his artistic inclinations at this time, he was allowed to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich at the age of twenty . There he met the Hungarian artist Simon Hollósy , who ran a private art school in Munich. In 1896 Nussbaum and some of his Munich classmates went with Hollósy to Transylvania , where Hollósy founded a painters' colony in the small village of Nagybánya . There the young artist devoted himself, among other things, to open-air painting , which he also cultivated in the following decades.

In 1902 Nussbaum returned to Frankfurt am Main, where he became known as a painter of portraits, still lifes and a painter of landscapes. In 1904 he became a member of the Berlin Secession. Nussbaum undertook several study trips to Holland, as well as to Tunisia in 1903/1904 . In 1907 he had his first exhibition together with Paul Klimsch, Alfred Oppenheim, Hans Burnitz, Ettore Cosomati, Wilhelm Trübner and other artists of the Frankfurt-Cronberger Künstlerbund . Von Oppenheim also owned his own works, as well as prints from the Berlin Secession.

During the First World War he was drafted as a reporter and produced several lithographic sheets of the western front. In 1917 he married a very wealthy woman who gave him material independence. He dedicated himself to regional motifs, so he followed his friend and colleague Alfred Oppenheim to paint the old bridge before it was demolished.

In the winter of 1924/1925 he traveled with his wife via Egypt to Palestine, where he created numerous watercolors and drawings, which later became the basis for various etchings in 1925.

In 1932 he received an appointment as a teacher at the Frankfurt Städelschule , but was dismissed as a Jew in 1933. In the same year he emigrated to Palestine with his wife and settled on the Sea of ​​Galilee. His work continued to show the Impressionist style, although he himself mourned the German landscapes.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Claudia Müller: The Frankfurt painter Jakob Nussbaum (1873 to 1836). Biography and catalog of works . Volume 42 of the Studies on Frankfurt History. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7829-0522-9 (volume of text and catalog raisonnée on CD). Funded by the Bethmann Foundation .
  • Nussbaum, Jakob , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 284
  • Nussbaum, Jakob , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 869f.
  • Germaid Ruck: Nussbaum, Jakob . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 93, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023259-2 , p. 103 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia C. Müller: Jakob Nussbaum (1873 - 1936): A Frankfurt painter in the field of tension between styles. P. 142, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Nussbaum, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhina , Hessen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1936
Place of death Kinneret , Mandate Palestine