A Tonic to the Nation: Refugees and Immigrants at the Festival of Britain
Insiders OutsidersA day symposium, an exhibition and a concert
£12 – £45
A day symposium, an exhibition and a concert
Marian Mahler (1909-1982) was born in Wies, Austria and settled in the UK in 1937. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) as well as architecture, with Josef Hoffmann, from late 1928 until early 1933.
Derry city, aka Londonderry, was one of the first places in Northern Ireland to which refugee workers from Vienna came to escape Nazi persecution.