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January 2019
Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Find out more »Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Marianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkeneau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Find out more »Internment – Living with the Wire
Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
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April 2019
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
Find out more »May 2019
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
Find out more »June 2019
Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
This display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.
Find out more »The Bauhaus in Britain
This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
Find out more »September 2019
The Art of Eugene Halliday and Käthe Schuftan
Käthe Schuftan was a Jewish artist who escaped from Berlin in June 1939. Her work was linked with both Käthe Kollwitz and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, including Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Selected dates from September to November.
Find out more »The Bauhaus in Bristol
The Ken Stradling Collection is very pleased to be taking part in the international celebrations marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
Find out more »Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Hampstead has been a place of refuge, reflection and community for centuries. This exhibition aims to show the response of some of its most creative residents to the tumultuous political events of the early twentieth century; from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of the Nazi party and the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond.
Find out more »October 2019
Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
This exhibition revisits the impact of three notable Bauhaus émigrés: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. Centred on the brief period of 1934-37, when they came to live and work in Britain, it traces this fertile moment in British architectural history and considers where its legacy has had the most enduring impact.
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