When I perish - don't let my paintings die": like no other artist of the first half of the century, the painter Felix Nussbaum, who was born in Osnabrück in 1904 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, captured all the experiences of the decades following the First World War in his paintings and reflected on them as part of his own situations, into which the artist was thrust as a Jew by the racist ideology of National Socialist Germany.

No one affected by the Holocaust has documented the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe as artistically as Nussbaum. For him, painting became an act of resistance in his hopeless situation, as it preserved his human dignity and gave him the strength to survive for a long time. He was a recorder of this time and became its victim.

The museum, designed by American architect Daniel Libeskind in 1998, is a unique exhibition space for Nussbaum's works. The concept of the house creates a spatial context in which the tragic connection between the life and work of the Osnabrück-born artist becomes the all-defining impression. The Felix Nussbaum House has set itself the task of preserving Felix Nussbaum's historically and artistically valuable legacy and presenting it to the public.

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