PARIS.- Who was Felix Nussbaum? His work has only recently been rediscovered and in France, where he is not well known, his paintings have never been shown before. Through 23 January 2011, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is presenting the first major retrospective of his work organised in France. Felix Nussbaum was a modern German painter, whose work was shaped by the “New Objectivity” and by contact with the European avant-garde of the first decades of the 20th century, in particular the Italian pittura metafisica and international surrealism, references that link him to some of his contemporaries: Max