Hans Feibusch, a German Jew whose work was displayed by the Nazis
in their 1937 Degenerate Art (Entattete Kunst) exhibition, lived
through virtually the entire 20th century. He was born in Frankfurt
in 1898. In 1930 he was awarded the German Grand State Prize for
Painters by the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, but in 1933
and unable to work in Germany, he fled to Britain where he spent
the rest of his life.
Between 1938 and 1974 he painted 40 murals for churches and cathedrals.
His masterpiece "The Trinity in Glory" is on the walls
of St. Alban the Martyr off High Holborn in London. During those
years he converted to Christianity, but in 1992, he renounced
his adopted faith and returned to Judaisim. In 1995, for the first
time, he dealt directly with the trauma of Nazi Germany, reportedly
after seeing Shoa, the film chronicle of the Holocaust.
