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
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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
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
George Adams – Bauhausler in Britain
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, LondonFeaturing the work of George Adams (1904-1983).
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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
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
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
The Pier Arts Centre Victoria Street, StromnessMargaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
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Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, LondonCelebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Tate Britain Millbank, LondonFollowing 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.
Free
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, LondonThe Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon
Free
Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road, OxfordThis 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.
Free
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, ChichesterA significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, HoveExhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
Free
The Bauhaus in Britain
Tate Britain Millbank, LondonThis free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
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Grete Marks
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, ChichesterAn exhibition of intimate portrait paintings and drawings by Grete Marks
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Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, LondonMarie Neurath – an émigré graphic designer and author, led a team at the Isotype Institute that produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971. The pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers produced infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts.
£4 – £8.25
20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
London College of Communication Elephant and Castle20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
The Art of Eugene Halliday and Käthe Schuftan
Tan-y-Garth Hall Retreat Pontfadog, LlangollenKäthe 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 April
Free
The Bauhaus in Bristol
The Ken Stradling Collection 48 Park Row, BristolThe Ken Stradling Collection is very pleased to be taking part in the international celebrations marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
Free
Flags of Diversity
London City Hall The Queen's Walk, LondonAn exhibition of collage works by artist Gil Mualem-Doron of printed textiles, which will include The New Union Flag. Commissioned by the Mayor of London for "We Are All Londoners: Celebrating Our European Culture and Communities".
Free
Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, LondonHampstead 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.
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