*Postponed* Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers
Join our discussion of the experience of Bernat Klein, Tibor Reich and other émigré textile designers.
£5 – £7
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Chambers Street Chambers Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Animated Visions: émigré film-makers in 1940s Britain
Insiders Outsiders , United KingdomVirtual EventThe Emigré Contribution to Animation Film-making in 1940s Britain.
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Berthold Wolpe: A Man of Letters
Radio programme, Resonance FM
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The Refugees who made the Festival of Britain
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain, design historian Harriet Atkinson will give this talk
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Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
Artist Judith Raum will be joined by design historian Tanya Harrod to evoke the life & work of Yugoslav-Jewish textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944)
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Colour, Texture & Destination
An exhibition celebrating the creative and cultural legacy of Bernat Klein
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The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade
Virtual EventExploring the contribution of Jewish refugees to British textiles, fashion and design – with Anna Nyburg
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Engineer Refugees from Nazism in Britain and their innovations
Imperial College Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication Sherfield Building Level 3, South Kensington Campus Imperial College, London, United KingdomHybrid EventSome 80,000 refugees from Nazism who made their way to safety in Britain were, inevitably, engineers.
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Making, Tracing: A Journey Back From England to the Polish Stetl
Virtual EventTalk by David Jones about his discovery that his creative work in clay & installation has become a medium for expressing his Jewish heritage
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Remembering Ervin Bossányi, Stained Glass Artist
Liszt Institute London 17-19 Cockspur Street, London, United KingdomTribute to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral.
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Erna Pinner’s Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference
Virtual EventThis seminar focuses on the analysis of Erna Pinner’s graphic and literary work, with particular emphasis on how the ideological discourse that influenced her work during the interwar period is transferred to her artistic production during her years of exile in London.
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Ian McLaren: Stories of a Graphic Designer
Penguin Books, the Munich Olympic Games and Refugee Connections: Ian McLaren in conversation with Anna Nyburg about his life and work
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Bernat Klein: Colour Revolution
Virtual EventInspired by the exhibition, Bernat Klein: Design in Colour, curator Lisa Mason and Dr Anna Nyburg will explore the work of revolutionary émigré textile designers, Bernat Klein and Tibor Reich.
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Talk: Bernat Klein: Design in Colour
National Museum Scotland Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian, United KingdomThis live event also features an exclusive screening of the 2017 documentary film, Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers.
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Isokon Ltd: Symposium
Virtual EventOn April 21, the Yale Center for British Art is holding one-day online symposium about Isokon Ltd, the 1930s design company that commissioned one of the Britain’s first modernist buildings, and an iconic range of plywood furniture by émigré designers including Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. The symposium will explore all aspects of Isokon’s design output […]
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My Disappearing Uncle
Virtual EventOn Monday 15 May at 6pm, children’s author, artist, illustrator and printmaker Kathy Henderson will be in conversation with Daniel Snowman about her new book, My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family. Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography, told through the […]
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Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style
Virtual EventFashion City brings together places and spaces in London with fashion and textiles, oral histories, objects and photography to weave this fascinating history, where every stitch tells a truly unique story.
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Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?
Virtual EventRussian-born Berthold Lubetkin and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger established themselves as two leading British architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation.
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Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Virtual EventTo mark the publication by Hatje Cantz of a major new book entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum, the book’s contributing editor, will talk about this challenging yet rewarding project.
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Crossed Wires, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff
Virtual EventProfessor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London.
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‘The Ark’: Wedgwood and European Refugees, 1933 -1945
Virtual EventBetween 1933-1945, thousands of European refugees escaping Nazi persecution sought refuge in Britain. Due to an apathetic British Government, assistance for refugees was the responsibility of individuals, organisations, and businesses, such as Wedgwood.
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In the English Tradition? Rima Model Gowns in the 1940s
Virtual EventIn 1939, Leo and Greta Neumann established the fashion business ‘Rima Model Gowns’ at 8 St. George Street, Hannover Square, London.
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Romek Marber (1925-2020): The Man who Vowed Never to Return
Romek Marber is probably most famous for the design of over seventy book covers for the Penguin Crime series in the 1960s as well as for the development of the Marber grid which made the layout of Penguin cover pages consistent across titles.
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