Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, LondonBritish medallic art spanning six centuries
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Mann at War
Manx Museum Manx Museum, DouglasThe role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Free
Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, GlasgowMarianne 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-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Free
Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, LondonCelebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
Internment – Living with the Wire
Manx Museum Manx Museum, DouglasDiscover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
Free
Refuge: The Art of Belonging
Abbot Hall Art Gallery KendalThis exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
Free – £7.70
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1The story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s.
Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, SouthamptonMore than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.
Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, CambridgeThis exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman's renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
Albert Reuss in Mousehole
Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, PenzanceInterior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he…
George Adams – Bauhausler in Britain
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, LondonFeaturing the work of George Adams (1904-1983).
Free
René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, FalmouthOn the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.
Free
The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, ParisIn the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, LeicesterDisplay of gifted artworks
Insiders/Outsiders: Émigré Poster Designers
London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza, LondonLondon Transport commissioned many of the best émigré designers to produce some of the most distinctive posters on the network
Great British Jews: A Celebration
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, LondonThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
Free
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, LondonNational Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
Free
Ongoing
Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
York Art Gallery Exhibition Square, YorkThe ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art
£7.50