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National Portrait Gallery

exhibition of Edvard Munch portraits

 

Felix Auerbach

Felix Auerbach (1856–1933) was associate professor of physics at the University of Jena; his appointment to full professorship was delayed until 1923 because of his Jewish background. He and his wife Anna were influential members of Jena’s intellectual and cultural elite and became. Interested in Munch after visiting the Nietzsche archive in nearby Weimar. They took their own lives in 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.

 

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