THE EXTRAORDINARY work of a Jewish artist who fled the Nazis in 1930 and made his home in the East Hampshire countryside can be viewed for the first time.

Friedrich Nagler: Wunderkammer has been fascinating visitors to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester with its hundreds of small scale sculptural heads on display until October 16.

The obsessive maker and self-taught artist carved, cast and assembled these from bone, metal and ivory, and more everyday materials like bread and hairbrushes.

His haunting sculptures of bearded men in beards and bearskin hats appear to refer to Hassidic Jews, and serve as a remembrance of Nagler’s past.

He lost many of his loved ones in concentration camps, and escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna, making it to England in 1939.

After being interned by the British, he ended up in a munitions factory where he met his wife, and the couple settled in Horndean.

And it was there that he was so prolific, using by-products and cut-offs from saw mills, boat yards and a show factory, to produce the huge body of work.

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