Nathan Wasserberger (1928-2013) was a Jewish Polish painter, known for his portrait paintings, including in particular nudes and depictions of women in kimono.
Many of the paintings he produced during his first years in the United States were directly influenced by, or addressed themes of, his experience in the Holocaust; though Wasserberger indicated in interviews that "these early works meant a great deal to him at the time," he also said that he considered them amateur, and destroyed them all.
[3] Wasserberger reportedly said that he "realized," at some point in the 1950s, that "by dwelling on the past I was in effect continuing the imprisonment I was so happy to escape.
In 1967, SoHo gallery owner Louis K. Meisel published a book about the artist, entitled simply Nathan Wasserberger.
[6] While a majority of his works are portraits of beautiful women of various ethnicities, either clothed or nude, they also include self-portraits, and images of jazz musicians, rabbis, John F. Kennedy, Toshiro Mifune as he appeared in the film Yojimbo, and other men of various ages and appearances, as well as some group scenes, and at least one portrait of a dog.