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Claudia Müller: Jakob Nussbaum és a nagybányai művésztelep

tieth century he moved to Frankfurt. During the next years he undertook extensive travels: in 1903-1904 to North Africa, in 1908 to the Netherlands with Liebermann, with whom he shared an interest in Dutch painting, and in 1911-1912 to Teneriffa, which provided the subjects for a series of lithographs. During World War One he served on the western front, but was later made a war painter following Liebermann's intervention. He produced mainly drawings during these years, most of which were realistic representations documenting the movements of the troops or the changes in the front lines. Many of them were published in newspapers. Interestingly, Nussbaum remained the aesthete he was even when he had to depict destruction: he chose to render the devastated landscape. After the war, Nussbaum soon became a respected painter in Frankfurt. Very few painters have depicted so many motifs of the city. In addition to his outstanding impressionistic pictures, pastose and lightly painted, he also produced portraits of famous people, which were a major factor in his success. Later he became a professor at the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule of Städtisches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt and thus became even more influential. Besides being an artist, Nussbaum was very active socially. He was a member of many art organizations, as well as functioning as the president of Frankfurt Art Society and being an distinguished member of the art committee of B'nai B'rith Masonic lodge, which was very active in the humanitarian field. A trip he made to Palestine during the 1920s led to new inspirations. The most impressive works are the water-colours he produced there, which document the regions of Genazareth Lake and Upper Galileia in soft tones. Together with his family he was forced to emigrate to Palestine in 1933. He lived in Kinereth, a little village along the southern shores of the lake. He died in December 1936.