Erieta Attali on the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus: Approaching Resistance is published by Hartmann Books and edited by the Felix Nussbaum Foundation. According to the publisher, the book brings together three voices and narratives: the life and art of Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), the architectural language of Daniel Libeskind, and the photographs of Erieta Attali. The publisher describes the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück as Libeskind’s first completed building, and says its provocative, unconventional design continues to defy visitors’ usual expectations of a museum building. Attali is described as capturing the references inside and outside the house, the interplay of architecture, museum and exhibition spaces, and the paintings presented there. Her view is characterised not as documentary but as the subjective view of a visual poet, exploring, in keeping with the subtitle, the resistance in both Nussbaum’s paintings and Libeskind’s architecture.

The bilingual German and English edition is issued as a hardcover in dos-à-dos binding, two books in one volume. The publisher specifies 2 × 80 pages (160 pages in all), 28 × 35 cm, and 105 illustrations. Architecture photographs are by Erieta Attali, who is the volume’s photographer. Texts are listed by Horst Bredekamp, Nils-Arne Kässens, Katharina Pötter, Hubertus Schlenke and Anne Sibylle Schwetter; Jilly Traganou contributes an interview with Erieta Attali. The cover takes the shape of an N, which the publisher describes as a reference to the painter’s name; the same description states that Nussbaum was murdered in Auschwitz. No publication year is given in the publisher’s listing.

The stated aim is to arouse curiosity about Nussbaum’s paintings and life and about the building that bears his name, and, in keeping with the wishes of the museum’s sponsors, to keep his memory alive. Attali’s photographs address the house and the paintings it contains, and the publisher frames the result as a subjective rather than documentary record.