Renewed Exile, Retirement and Death
The Mediterranean idyll did not last forever. In 1976 the Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, expelled Braun-Dusemond and his family from Malta. Braun-Dusemond was obliged to return to the country from which he had fled nearly forty years previously. Unable to settle in Germany because of the agony of his memories (much of his family had perished in the Holocaust), Braun-Dusemond moved to Britain from which he continued to sell his paintings to clients abroad – mainly in Germany where he had his two last exhibitions in Berlin (1977) and in Hamm (1981).
As a colourist addicted to the brilliant colours of Africa and the warm light of the Mediterranean, Braun-Dusemond was no longer able to function properly as a painter. He spent his last years living yet again in the shadow of a cathedral - this time that of Wells in Somerset.
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