Excursion to the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück

One area of the exhibition Face-to-Face with Images addresses the inner and outer effect of pictures and, in particular, with the effect of portraits. What relationship arises between a portrait and viewers? In a portrait, is the outer effect the only thing concerned or is, for instance, a self-portrait not a form of self-reflection as well? In his works, the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944) makes an intensive examination of both his inner and outer world, so that they function as a kind of journal of the stages in his life journey. In his early work, for him, his art already had the task of establishing a dialogue with himself, whereby they became an expression of his innermost world of emotions. With the beginning of his exile in Belgium, this constant self-reflection found even greater expression in a series of self-portraits as a result of the search for his own identity as a result of his threatened existence. Between this beginning (1935) and his death, he created a total of thirty-five (today known) self-portraits.

The excursion includes:
• Bus tour from the Draiflessen Collection to Osnabrück and back
• Group lunch at the StadtGalerieCafé in Osnabrück
• Tour through the special exhibition 'Face-to-Face with images' and the Felix Nussbaum Haus
• Both tours led by the historian Dr Hans Peterse

€ 39 plus, € 15 for the group lunch