Lucian Freud (1922-2011) Lunchtime Lecture: Freud’s Juvenilia
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An online talk by Elizabeth Lamle about Freud’s very early work and correspondence
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Lecture and Gallery Visit: Lucian Freud – New Perspectives
St Martin-in-the-Fields LondonAn in-person visit to the major Freud retrospective at the National Gallery, preceded by an introductory lecture by art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen.
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Cross-Connections: exhibition of Ruth Rix paintings
Robert Cripps Gallery The New Library Magdalene College Magdalene Street, Cambridge, United KingdomAn exhibition of the paintings of second generation artist Ruth Rix
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Jewish Book Week 2023: Maurice Bilk
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomJewish Book Week 2023 runs from 25 February to 5 March and as always, features a rich array of fascinating offerings. Of particular relevance to Insiders/Outsiders is the talk by Holocaust survivor and sculptor Maurice Blik on 26 February at 6.30pm and the session about Hungarian-born film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist Emeric Pressburger on […]
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Talk: Leon Vilaincour
Virtual Eventan online talk about Polish-born artist and teacher Leon Vilaincour
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Talk: Erna Pinner in Frankfurt, London, and the World
Virtual EventOn Wednesday 29 March at 6pm, cultural historian Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will give an online talk about German-born artist and illustrator Erna Pinner, who found refuge in the UK in 1935. Pinner’s work features prominently in Back into the Light: Four Women Artists – Their Works, […]
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Tribute to Mira Hamermesh
Virtual EventIn the centenary year of her birth, Jeremy Coopman will pay tribute to his mother, the remarkable Polish-born film maker and artist Mira Hamermesh, who spent most of her working life in England.
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The Lives of Edith Hoffmann, Art Historian
Virtual EventTermed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”, Edith Hoffman wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka.
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Peter László Péri (1889-1967) – Péri’s People
Virtual EventThis lecture by Arie Hartog will present the results of recent research on Péri and represents a more holistic approach.
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Memorials, Past and Present: Caren Garfen in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
Virtual EventLondon-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research.
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Mid-European Art Exhibition
Virtual EventAndrea Lehmann, senior researcher and associate director of restitution at Christie’s, Brussels, will talk about her ongoing researches into the tactfully named Mid-European Art Exhibition held at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in 1944.
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Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch
Maggs Booksellers 8 Bedford Square, London, United KingdomFilm screening at Maggs Bros, London, of ‘Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch’, an intensely moving and beautifully crafted film by Second Generation artist Barbara Loftus.
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Painting Trauma: The Story of Heinz Inlander (1925-83)
Fragments of experience can be brought together by colour and shape, form and canvas, but also by craft and an intense awareness of painting as one of the foundations upon which humans build their understanding of the cultures and environments they inhabit.
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Insight and Observation: The Life and Work of Gerda Rubinstein (1931-2022)
Virtual EventRoger Lee of Parndon Mill in Harlow, who exhibited her work and knew Gerda personally, will be in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen, art historian and founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, to introduce us to the touching life story and artistic evolution of this still little-known woman émigré sculptor.
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Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK
Virtual EventIn this talk Dominique Fleischmann will give an overview of his father’s career in London, his use of Perspex as a sculptural medium, and focus on public commissions for World Expos and the Festival of Britain.
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Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) – The Spiral of Life
Virtual EventThis talk, given by the sculptor’s daughter, Antonia Salmon who is also an artist, will explore Charlotte Mayer’s early years growing up in Prague and the impact on her life of her experience of being a child refugee when she came to the UK in 1939 at the age of ten.
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I Had to Be Present: Oto Bihalji-Merin, art historian, editor, publisher, art critic and activist
Virtual EventOto Bihalji-Merin (1904-1993) was a Yugoslav-Jewish art historian, editor, publisher, art critic and activist whose creative life fused multiple languages, identities and cultures in response to the historical and political contexts of the 20th century and whose legacy lies in his advocacy for art that transcends formal training, emphasizing human creativity and imagination.
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Rogues and Scholars Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000
Virtual EventTo mark the recent publication by Bloomsbury of his book Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000: James Stourton: Apollo, James Stourton will discuss his chosen topic.
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Käthe Schuftan, ‘Prophetess of Spirit’: the rediscovery of a forgotten artist
Virtual Event“She believed in creative energy . . . She has lived, and always with her art and her great energy tried to provoke everybody else to live, in the light of freedom, in the light of spirit; and if, therefore, we could have a way of remembering her, let us always remember her as a prophetess of spirit and of freedom. That is all that she would want from us.”
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Kosher Giraffe Trilogy: A talk by Hugo Max
Virtual EventIn his latest publication Austrian-British multidisciplinary artist Hugo Max explores the internment of his great-grandfather as an ‘enemy alien’ on the Isle of Man during the Second World War.
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Hans Hess: The Goods have become the Gods
Virtual EventTo mark the recent publication by the Manifesto Press of Volume 3 of Hans Hess: Selected Writings, Dr. Lucy Burke, Academic Director of the new Hans Hess Foundation, will introduce us to an important but hitherto under-examined art historian, curator and left-wing cultural activist.
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Comrades in Art – For Peace, Democracy and Cultural Freedom
Virtual EventIn the autumn of 1933 a group of twenty-something largely unknown artists and designers felt impelled to begin organising against the threat of fascism and war. They determined to create a London-based artists’ auxiliary in support of progressive causes.
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Activism Through Art: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain
Virtual EventSociologist Larry Ray, one of the contributors to the anthology Poverty for Sale: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain, recently published by MuseumsEtc, will give a talk about the life and work of photographer and committed communist Edith Tudor Hart.
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Refugee Artists and Craftworkers in Derry, Northern Ireland
Insiders Outsiders , United KingdomDerry city, aka Londonderry, was one of the first places in Northern Ireland to which refugee workers from Vienna came to escape Nazi persecution.
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