Selbstbildnis mit Judenpass (Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card) is the title of the best-known painting by the German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944). In the picture, which originated in a Belgian hideaway in 1943, the artist reveals himself with a “Judenstern” and stamped alien’s passport as a Jew, thus addressing the danger, ever-present for all Jews, of being detected a…
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Jaehner, Inge, “Self-Portrait”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 05 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0794>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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