Felix Nussbaum
1904 - 1944

View of a Canal, 1935

View of a Canal, 1935
Gouache on paper
46.7 x 60.5 cm
Gift of Roger-David  Katz and his wife Louba Moscicka, Brussels

A man stands in a rowboat on a canal, on the far side of which can be seen the city buildings, including a church. In front of the buildings are a horse and wagon. This picture appears to have been painted in Ostende, a Belgian resort town where Nussbaum spent summer vacations with his parents. Nussbaum drew many port scenes here in the period before his arrest, when he was still able to travel to the town from Brussels.

In memory of Yitzhak Tabolicki and his wife Guitele Katz; Leon Katz, his wife Irene Temkin and their daughter Esther; Lazare Goldstein, his wife Mala Katz and their children Harry and Dora; Eva Katz and her family; Nathan Schwartz and Feigl Moscicka and her children.  

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