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10 July 1898Gregorian
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1975
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In the months after the Nazis came to power, storm troopers frequently and arbitrarily attacked Jews, and many committed suicide out of fear of violence.[33] Whether this had any connection to the Auerbachs’ joint suicide cannot be verified, but Bruno Kisch—the husband of Ruth Kisch-Arndt, who inherited Munch’s painting after their deaths—had no doubt that this was indeed the case.[34]In 1938, during the build-up to the outbreak of the Second World War, Ruth Kisch-Arndt and her husband took refuge in the United States, and fortunately they were able to take Munch’s portrait of Felix Auerbach with them. Between 1971 and 1980, the Auerbach portrait was on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[35] It was auctioned in 1980 and remained in private collections until its acquisition by the Van Gogh Museum in the summer of 2017. (English)
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