At its best, Nussbaum’s work, much like Libeskind’s, expresses a wide range of 20th-century Jewish experience and emotion. ...Nussbaum retained the identity of creative artist rather than mere historical victim.... One of his most famous paintings, “Self-portrait With Jewish Pass,” in which he holds an identity card marked “Jew” and wears a yellow star, is an artistically formulated composition, not a literal snapshot. By 1943, when Nussbaum painted “Self-portrait With Jewish Pass,” he did not actually carry an ID card or wear a yellow star, but was sequestered in Brussels, where he had moved in 1937 and managed to return in 1940, after escaping from a French concentration camp train. Nussbaum’s firm draftsmanship, akin to Germany’s 1920s New Objectivity art movement, exemplified by such painters as Otto Dix and Christian Schad, wards off self-pity and sentimentality. [https://forward.com/culture/130576/frum-amid-the-horror/]