Artist who painted Angelus Novus in 1921, a work later interpreted by Walter Benjamin as representing the angel of history viewing the catastrophic accumulation of historical wreckage.
""His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." — Walte"