Felix Nussbaum Haus (1995-1998)
For his next project, Libeskind borrowed from ideas he developed for the Jewish Museum to design a studio to house the works of a single artist, Felix Nussbaum, a German-Jewish painter born in Osnabr¸ck in 1904. As in the Berlin museum, the typography of the Felix Nussbaum Haus charts a symbolic course, in this case through the artist's life and work. Visitors enter the studio through the Osnabrück Museum of Cultural History, a 19th century building that, ironically, was the town's Nazi Party headquarters in the 1930s. Today, that building and its history serve as the figurative and literal starting point for understanding Nussbaum's life.

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