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
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, LeicesterDisplay of gifted artworks
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
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
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
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
Free
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
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
Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
Architecture Gallery, RIBA 66 Portland Place, LondonThis 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.
Free
László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus
RIBA First Floor Gallery, 66 Portland Place, LondonThis display draws on the RIBA’s unique holdings to demonstrate both the range of Moholy-Nagy’s British work and the strong ties that he established with modernist architects in Britain.
Free
Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Museum of Gloucester Brunswick Road, GloucesterThe exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.
Free
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Britain Millbank, LondonThis free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
Free
Migration at the RNCM
Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road, ManchesterMigration has been in the DNA of the RNCM from its earliest roots, when in 1893 the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé realised his vision of founding a Northern conservatoire which became the Royal Manchester College of Music.
Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus
Willam Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road, LondonThe William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Brent Civic Centre Engineers Way, London20:20 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.
20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Willesden Library 95 High Road, London20:20 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.
Heartfield: One Man’s War
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, LondonAn exhibition of prints by the renowned photomontage artist John Heartfield. A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield is known as the inventor of political photomontage. 33 of Heartfield’s scathingly satirical artworks against war, fascism and the Third Reich will be on display.
Dance of Life: Barbara Jackson
New North London Synagogue East End Road, LondonThese images convey the comfortable settled life of middle-class Jewry in Germany and the gradual feeling of unease, separation and persecution that overcame them.
Josef Herman
Flowers Gallery 82 Kingsland Road, LondonThe first major exhibition for many years to trace the complex life journey of Polish-Jewish artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), from his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940 through his time spent in Glasgow, South Wales, London and Suffolk.
A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Opposite the Woodman Pub Archway Road, LondonDiscover some of Highgate's twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
£12
The Ballad of the Cosmo Café
St Peter's Church Hall Belsize Square, Belsize Park, LondonAn imagined immersive ‘singspiel’ recreating this much-loved café in Finchley Road, in St Peter’s Church Hall, Belsize Park. Based on selected memories and stories from the Cosmo research group and translated into lyrics by the Cosmo writers group.
£16