From Internee to Art Collector: Tribute to Ruth Borchard
Screening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
Screening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
This talk and discussion will focus on Bilbo as an émigré artist and on some of the many facets of his extraordinary life and career.
Jacquie Richardson will then be in conversation Simon Parkin, about the key role Hinrichsen played in the rich intellectual and artistic life of Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man
A talk by art historian Simon Lake about the rich and tumultuous life of émigré painter Ernst Neuschul.
Karen Hopper will give a talk about her remarkable German-born artist grandparents.
Sculptor, art educator & Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik talking about his new book, Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival – An Artobiography
Prof John J Heartfield, grandson of John Heartfield and curator of The John Heartfield Exhibition in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
Dr. Tessa Murdoch talking about her new book Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, recently published by the V&A
Berlin-based art historian and curator Dorothea Schöne will give a talk entitled ‘Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed’.
Mark the 80th anniversary of the internment of refugees from Nazi Europe by the British Government with this four-day trip
Stephen Duncan FRSS will be talking about his career as a sculptor in both the UK and Italy.
A conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
Poet, Maia Elsner, will be reading past work and new pieces inspired by the art of her grandfather, the late Dante Elsner (1920-1997)
Ceremony to lay a Stolperstein for Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
The second in a series of summer research seminars on The Arts of Postwar Britain 1945–1965 with Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett
Tribute to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral.
A talk by Dorothea Schöne about Jussuf, Abbo, a fascinating but still too little-known émigré artist, who died in London in 1953.
Art historian and Insiders/Outsiders founding director Monica Bohm-Duchen gives a tour of the Barbican Centre’s fascinating exhibition, Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965.
Get to know the émigrés who, having fled Nazi Europe, embraced the future and introduced avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.
Retrospective exhibition, ‘Dorothy Bohm: A World Observed’, will be on view at the Kaunas Photography Gallery
An online talk by historian Helen Fry, based on her fascinating book Freud’s War
An in-person guided tour of the exhibition, Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family, currently on at the Freud Museum, London