Felka Platek (Felka Płatek; 3 November 1899 – 2 August 1944) was a Polish artist.

Biography

Platek was born on 3 November 1899 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, Poland. She was the companion and later the wife of the German painter

Felix Nussbaum Felix Nussbaum (December 11, 1904 – August 9, 1944) was a German Jews, German-Jewish surrealist Painting, painter. Nussbaum’s work gives insights into the essence of one person among the victims of the Holocaust. Early life and education N ...

. The couple fled Germany around 1935. They lived in

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, then

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, settling in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

where they married in 1937. Nussbaum and Platek were arrested by the Germans in 1944. They were sent to the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

Platek was murdered, probably on or about 2 August 1944 at Auschwitz.

Legacy

In 2014 the International Auschwitz Committee sponsored a program entitled "Find Felka! Find Felix!". The

Felix Nussbaum Haus The Felix Nussbaum Haus is a museum in Osnabrück, Germany, which houses the paintings of German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum. The building also houses an exhibition space, which focuses on racism and intolerance. Origins By the 1980s, the cit ...

in Osnabrück includes a permanent display of Platek's work. "

Gallery

Felka Platek - A still life with red roses in a glass vase, 1929.jpg, A still life with red roses in a glass vase, 1929 Felka Platek - Porträt der Frau Etienne 1940.jpg, Portrait of Mrs. Etienne,1940

References

External links

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