Our vibrantly colored still life depicts two cacti and a rubber plant in clay pots on a small, light-green wooden table with an open drawer. A light-pink ball of wool with a knitting needle protrudes decoratively from the drawer. In the 1920s, the cactus became a much-loved fashion plant, a chic and original lifestyle accessory and an important element in the still lifes of the New Objectivity movement. The haunting beauty  is made more poignant with the knowledge that the artist and her family were murdered in Auschwitz in May 1944.