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SUMMARY:'The Ark': Wedgwood and European Refugees\, 1933 -1945
DESCRIPTION:Between 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. Unfortunately\, their efforts of the latter have remained unexplored\, as have the stories of those arriving into their care. Through archival material and collections held at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, this talk by Michael Ruddy will reveal how the Wedgwood Family and Company worked resolutely to help those being oppressed across Central Europe. \nMichael Ruddy is an Assistant Curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, situated in Barlaston\, Stoke-on-Trent. He joined the V&A from Arts Council England\, where he worked in the ELU and GIS teams. He has also worked at Leonard Cheshire\, supporting the digitisation of the Charity’s historically important sound collection\, and at Boughton House cataloguing the Buccleuch Collections. Michael has completed a BA History degree from the University of Derby and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. In addition to ceramics\, his other research interest is the role of museums in social justice and representation. \nImage: Terracotta Bust of Ulla Goodman\, ca. 1940 \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-ark-wedgwood-and-european-refugees-1933-1945/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Rogues and Scholars Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000
DESCRIPTION:James Stourton’s entertaining\, informative and very readable book Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000\, recently published by Bloomsbury and singled out as the Times Best Art Book of the Year\, 2024\, tells the colourful story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium and introduces us to ‘a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs\, eccentric scholars\, brilliant emigrés\, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal’. For the purposes of this talk for Insiders/Outsiders\, James will pay particular attention to the ‘brilliant emigrés’\, among them Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer\, Herbert Bier\, Erica Brausen\, Annely Juda and many more… \nJames Stourton is a British art historian\, a former Chairman of Sotheby’s UK and the author of Great Houses of London\, British Embassies\, and the authorized biography of Kenneth Clark. Stourton frequently lectures to Cambridge University History of Art Faculty\, Sotheby’s Institute of Education and The Art Fund\, and is a senior fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. He also sits on the Heritage Memorial Fund\, a government panel which meets to decide what constitutes heritage and should be saved for the nation. \nImage: book cover (detail) \nTo book\, click here. \n  \nFestival supporters can purchase Rogues & Scholars for £20 plus P&P (RRP £30) from the Bloomsbury website\, using the code INSIDERSOUTSIDERS. The code is live now and will work until 27th July. \nOverseas customers can order from the UK site using the code.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/rogues-and-scholars/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T193000
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SUMMARY:**POSTPONED**From Publishing Innovator to Corporate Dealmaker: Paul Hamlyn & the Transformation of UK Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Please check back soon for a new date for this event \nAn émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany\, Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger\,1926-2001) was an innovative publisher who re-engineered the publishing model and systemised creativity. This approach led him to float his second business\, Octopus Publishing Group\, on the London Stock Exchange\, which arguably transitioned UK publishing from the era of family-owned and eponymous publishers to the conglomerate-dominated landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. No less a democratiser of books than Allen Lane of Penguin and others before him in the nineteenth century\, Hamlyn was a major figure in the industry whose cultural and commercial significance has not been as fully acknowledged by book historians as it should have been. \nHamlyn’s career can be divided into two distinct parts: in the first\, he is the outsider who becomes an innovative publisher; in the second after the float of Octopus floated in 1983\, he acquired insider status owing to his corporate dealmaking prowess. He first merged Octopus with Heinemann in 1985 and then sold it to Reed International in 1987. He would also become a major philanthropist\, setting up the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in the same year. \nSince 2002\, Marcus E. Leaver has been a trade book publisher running businesses on both sides of the Atlantic\, primarily in the illustrated non-fiction and children’s publishing genres\, namely Chrysalis Books\, Barnes & Noble Publishing\, The Quarto Group and Welbeck Publishing Group. Since selling Welbeck in late 2022 to one of the major trade publishers\, he completed the first year of an MA in the History of the Book and started a new business\, Gemini Books Group. In this second year of his MA\, he is writing his dissertation on Paul Hamlyn. \nImage: Paul Hamlyn\, circa 1985. Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/from-publishing-innovator-to-corporate-dealmaker-paul-hamlyn-the-transformation-of-uk-publishing/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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SUMMARY:Of Penguins\, Albatrosses\, Pelicans and Kings: Refugees from Nazism at Penguin Books
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books\, Dr. Anna Nyburg\, author of Émigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon\, 2014)\, will pay tribute to the disproportionately large number of former refugees from Nazi Europe who contributed to the company’s extraordinary success. \nPenguin Books was founded by Allen Lane in 1935 and would radically change British reading habits\, educating\, informing  and entertaining the public for generations through their affordable and widely available books. \nRight from the beginning\, Penguin Books owed a debt to German publishing and book production\, inspired as the company was by the then ultra-modern Hamburg-based Albatross Books. Since William Morris’ Kelmscott Press\, German and British book producers and designers had influenced each other’s work\, with the result that when the National Socialists came to power\, those mainly Jewish book artists\, designers and authors fleeing to Britain could use their existing contacts in Britain to find work. \nAuthors such as Stefan Lorant and François Lafitte wrote Penguin Specials while Jan Tschichold and Hans Schmoller oversaw the important typography and page design that signalled the slim volumes’ modernity. Berthold Wolpe\, Romek Marber and Germano Facetti created the Penguin covers that helped to sell the books\, while Schmoller and Dieter Pevsner (son of Penguin author and editor Nikolaus Pevsner) became major figures in the running of the company. Last but no means least\, it was two Viennese refugees\, Wolfgang Foges and Walter Neurath (later to co-found Thames & Hudson)  who thought up and created the first King Penguins. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book covers
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/of-penguins-albatrosses-pelicans-and-kings-refugees-from-nazism-at-penguin-books/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T193000
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SUMMARY:In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
DESCRIPTION:Rüdiger Görner\, Professor Emeritus of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London\, will be in conversation with writer and critic David Herman about his latest book\, In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig. \nIn the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian-born writer Stefan Zweig\, delving into his considerable contribution to world literature\, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. A world traveller from the outset\, Zweig liked to uproot himself – but whether he stayed in London\, New York\, or eventually Brazil\, his literary baggage continued to contain the flavour and flair of fin de siècle Vienna. \nLooking anew at Zweig’s influential time in England and offering fresh insights into his final years in the United States and Brazil\, Görner discusses Zweig’s prolific literary output in relation to his life and subjects his political views on Europe\, Zionism\, and the world order to deep scrutiny. \nAs one reviewer has put it\, ‘Görner’s meticulous analysis of Zweig’s letters\, his diaries\, and some of his characteristic works greatly enriches the critical debate about the latter’s world-wide legacy. Full of interesting details on Zweig’s quest for freedom\, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of Europe’s most translated writer of the interwar period.’ \nTo book\, click here \nA discount code for 25% off In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig is available to those who which to purchase the book. Use ZWEIG25 at the checkout. \n  \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/in-the-future-of-yesterday-a-life-of-stefan-zweig/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T180000
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SUMMARY:I Had to Be Present: Oto Bihalji-Merin\, art historian\, editor\, publisher\, art critic and activist
DESCRIPTION:Oto 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. \nOto’s youth in Zemun and Berlin deeply shaped his leftist and anti-fascist ideas\, exposing him to avant-garde artistic movements such as Expressionism\, Dada and New Objectivity. In 1928\, with his brother Pavle Bihali\, he co-founded the left-wing publishing house Nolit and the magazine Nova Literatura (New Literature). After spending time in Spain and Paris\, Oto settled in Zürich in 1934\, where he wrote for Die Neue Weltbühne\, Die Deutsche Blätter\, and Savremeni Pogledi\, and associated with artists and writers such as Max Beckmann\, Max Bill\, Wolfgang Langhoff\, Stefan Zweig and Albert Einstein. In the late 1930s he was closely involved with the landmark exhibition Twentieth Century German Art\, shown in London in 1938\, and (under the pseudonym Peter Thoene) wrote the companion volume\, Modern German Art\, the first publication on this subject in English. \nAfter WW2\, Oto Bihalji-Merin wrote extensively about the works of naïve artists. His most famous book\, The World of Naïve Artists (1959)\, is considered to be a foundational text on the subject. He was involved in publishing and editing cultural magazines and books which played a crucial role in shaping the intellectual landscape of Yugoslavia in the mid 20th century. \nThis talk by its curators Senka Latinovic and Miroslav Karic\, introduced by London-based art historian Alexandra Lazar\, coincides with a major exhibition entitled Oto Bihalji-Merin: I Had to Be Present at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. The exhibition celebrates the 120th anniversary of Bihalji-Merin’s birth and runs until 17 February. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Portrait of Oto Bihalji-Merin\, Photo: Tošo Dabac\, Archive of the Salon Oto Bihalji-Merin
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/oto-bihalji-merin-art-historian-editor-publisher-art-critic-and-activist-i-had-to-be-present/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,Literature
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) - The Spiral of Life
DESCRIPTION:This 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. Antonia will also discuss the influence on her mother’s approach to life of her creative and dynamic grandmother. Charlotte’s deep interest in and practice of meditation\, combined with her studies of nature\, led her to produce abstract forms that have dynamism and stillness in their apparent simplicity. Many of her sculptures were a healing response to life challenges. She will explore Charlotte’s working methods and materials and how these translated into the production of bronze and stainless works for private and public commissions. \nAntonia Salmon is an internationally renowned ceramic artist. Brought up in a household dedicated to modern sculpture and architecture\, her childhood was infused with an awareness of form and space. She studied Geography and Geology at Sheffield University\, and later attended Harrow School of Art as a studio potter. A year spent studying in the Middle East and India made a deep impression and after returning to England in 1985 she established her first workshop in London. In the late 1980s\, she returned to Sheffield where she still lives and works.\nThis talk forms part of the events programme – organised in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders – accompanying the Fred Kormis exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, which runs until 6 February 2025. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Charlotte Mayer with two of her sculptures\, c.1990 © Steve Russell
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/charlotte-mayer-1929-2022-the-spiral-of-life/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK
DESCRIPTION:The sculptor Arthur Fleischmann was born into a Jewish family in Bratislava. He studied medicine in Budapest and Prague and qualified as a medical doctor – where in parallel he started his sculpture studies under Professor Jan Štursa. Immediately after qualifying as a doctor\, he turned his attention and energy fully to sculpture. He left Europe in the mid-1930s and\, following periods living and working in Bali and Australia\, returned to Europe in 1948\, where he settled in London and began to establish himself. His work was championed by Sir Charles Wheeler\, and despite cultural prejudices\, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of British Sculptors. \nIn 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. Among the latter were commissions for four sculptures at the Brussels World Exhibition in 1958 – two for the British Pavilion and two for the Vatican Pavilion. He and his young wife Joy spent a year on site in Brussels working to install the sculptures. The majority of his efforts were spent erecting the 40 foot high aluminium Resurrection. \nDominique Fleischmann\, son of the sculptor\, is a trustee of the Arthur Fleischmann Foundation and was instrumental both in setting up the Arthur Fleischmann Museum in Bratislava in 2002 and in publishing the book Bali in the 1930s: Photographs and Sculptures by Arthur Fleischmann in 2007. He has supported his mother Joy in the staging of numerous exhibitions and events since the death of Arthur Fleischmann in 1990. He has developed the Arthur Fleischmann Digital Archive that aims to provide a definitive catalogue of all Arthur Fleischmann sculptures\, drawings\, paintings and photographs around the world. In the last four years\, he has digitized the thousands of letters and photographs in his father’s archive that were recently acquired by Tate. \nDominique will be joined by sculpture expert Joanna Barnes\, who curated the exhibition ‘Arthur Fleischmann: a centennial celebration’ at the Mestke Múzeum in Bratislava in 1996 and helped establish the Arthur Fleischmann Museum there in 2002. A former trustee of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association\, Joanna was editor of its online magazine\, 3rd Dimension and co-founder of the Sculpture Journal. Co-founder of The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA)\, she is currently its co-chair. \nThis talk forms part of the events programme – organised in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders – accompanying the Fred Kormis exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, which runs until 6 February 2025. \n  \nTo book\, click here \n  \nImage: Arthur Fleischmann\, 1972. With kind permission of the Arthur Fleischmann Archive
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/arthur-fleischmann-1896-1990-a-new-life-in-the-uk/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T193000
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SUMMARY:Insight and Observation: The Life and Work of Gerda Rubinstein (1931-2022)
DESCRIPTION:Gerda Rubinstein was born in Berlin in 1931 to a Christian mother and a Jewish father. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1933\, but her father was taken by the Nazi regime and later died in Monowitz. Gerda first worked in a pottery and then in the studio of Wessel Couzijn. She attended the Rijks Academie\, gaining a grant which enabled her to study in Paris under Ossip Zadkine. Returning to Amsterdam she was awarded her first public sculpture commissions. \nHaving visited Jerusalem where she met Ada Karmi Melamede\, Gerda came to London in 1958 where she met her husband-to-be\, Christopher Stevens\, who had studied architecture at the Architectural Association with Ram Karmi. From the late 1960s onwards\, she was particularly active in Essex\, receiving numerous commissions for public sculptures from the Harlow Arts Trust and for the Gibberd Garden\, Harlow\, including a portrait of architect\, town planner\, landscape architect and art collector Sir Frederick Gibberd. Gerda’s warmly humanist\, naturalistic sculptures remain very popular in Harlow – familiar and well-appreciated\, they inspire real affection. \nAs Gerda herself explained: “My sculptures are almost always of people\, getting my inspiration from where I live. I have also made portraits and modelled birds and animals. I hope that the work\, which is generally figurative\, will be self-explanatory without the need for titles. I have come to realise that the sense of freedom and hope that I experienced as a teenager in Holland\, after five years of occupation in World War II\, has really never left me and that it still colours my work”. \nRoger 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. \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/insight-and-observation-the-life-and-work-of-gerda-rubinstein-1931-2022/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241118T193000
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SUMMARY:Karen Gershon (1923-1993) – Writing my mother’s story: a journey of redefinition
DESCRIPTION:The author and poet Karen Gershon\, probably best known for her book We Came as Children (1966)\, arrived in England as the child Kate Loewenthal on a Kindertransport in December 1938. For her daughter Naomi Shmuel\, writing her story has been a harrowing journey of redefinition as she uncovered stark truths in letters written to her sister over a lifetime. The unfolding story includes both the narrative of a child survivor forced to change languages who became the voice of a whole generation\, and the unfolding tragedy of a very English family largely unaware of their Jewish connection struggling with immigration to Israel and inevitable unsolvable conflicts. Some of the themes of her life – rootlessness\, the never-ending search for a viable identity and sense of home\, the aftershock of the Holocaust – are also clearly apparent in the lives of the next generation – her children. Assembling pieces of the puzzle of her mother’s life made Naomi\, whose  book The Legacy of Karen Gershon: Child Survivor to Author and Poet was recently published by Cambridge Scholars\, question her own. \nNaomi\, herself a prize-winning British-Israeli author with a particular interest in anti-bias education and human and cultural diversity\, will talk about Karen Gershon as her mother and about the experience of writing the book. She will be joined by Phyllis Lassner\, Professor Emerita at The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies\, Gender Studies\, and Writing Program at Northwestern University\, Illinois\, who will discuss Gershon’s literary contribution to the understanding of the Kindertransport experience. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/karen-gershon/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T203000
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SUMMARY:‘On Dorothy Bohm’: An Illustrated Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen – Dorothy Bohm’s daughter and co-curator of the About Women: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm exhibition currently on show at Burgh House – will give a wide-ranging yet personal illustrated talk about her photographer mother’s remarkable life and career\, which spanned more than seven decades. \nMonica’s talk will be followed by an audience Q&A. \nKindly funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Dorothy Bohm\, Self Portrait\, aged 18 (detail)\, 1942
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/on-dorothy-bohm-an-illustrated-lecture/
LOCATION:Burgh House and Hampstead Museum\, Burgh House\, New End Square\, London\, NW3 1LT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T163000
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \nThe City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \nPlease note that a couple of sculptures may not be accessible to view due to security or building work issues. \n\n\n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-diverse-london-city-public-art-by-refugees-and-immigrants-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241022T110000
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. \nStarts Opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road\, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate\, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \n  \nMeet on the green opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road London N6 5UA
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-a-walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T193000
DTSTAMP:20240919T111258Z
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
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SUMMARY:The Laterndl: A Light in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Das Laterndl (The Little Lantern) was the first and largest of a number of German-language theatres run by exiles in London during the Second World War. It reunited friends and colleagues who had worked together in Vienna at one or other of the political cabaret theatres which had flourished during the period of Austro-fascism\, 1934-1938. \nThe three actors who proposed the opening of a theatre at the Austrian Centre in March 1939 – Fritz Schrecker\, Franz Hartl and Franz Schulz – had clear aims in mind for the theatre. They wanted to give the wider refugee community hope and belief in the future\, contribute to the fight for a free and independent Austria and reach out and share stories with their British hosts. Perhaps\, just as importantly\, was an unspoken hope that theatre would bring a sense of agency and purpose to their life in exile. \nThis talk by Kat Hubschmann\, project archivist\, Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust\, coincides with a new online exhibition entitled A Light in Dark Times on the same subject\, based on the holdings of The Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive at the University of London. \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-laterndl-a-light-in-dark-timesrene-halkett-1900-1983/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Theatre,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T193000
DTSTAMP:20240919T111225Z
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T111225Z
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SUMMARY:Painting Trauma: The Story of Heinz Inlander (1925-83)
DESCRIPTION: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. For Austrian-born Henry (born Heinz) Inlander\, who settled in England in 1938\, paintings of landscapes brought the richness of the physical world into contact with human vision\, memory and the imagination. It was also his way of exploring the trauma of his family history\, especially the loss of family in the Holocaust. \nHenry Inlander painted the eruption of the real world onto the canvas\, and this is best exemplified by his early drawings and paintings which explored everything from the textures of trees to the shape of a mountain against the sky. As an artist he was obsessed by the transformative power of art and by an inner impulse that made it impossible to live without creating\, imagining and recreating the world that he loved. \nDr. Ron Burnett\, Inlander’s nephew\, was born in London. He was President and Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, Vancouver\, from 1996-2018 and is now its President Emeritus. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada as well as the Order of British Columbia and has been recognized with a Knighthood by the French Government. He is the author of five books (including Explorations in Film Theory and How Images Think) and over one hundred and fifty articles. \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/painting-trauma-the-story-of-heinz-inlander-1925-83rene-halkett-1900-1984/
CATEGORIES:Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T163000
DTSTAMP:20240502T105319Z
CREATED:20210803T180638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T105319Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:The City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \nPlease note that a couple of sculptures may not be accessible to view due to security or building work issues. \nThis particular walk is timed to be during refugee week Refugee Week – 17 – 23 June 2024 \n\n\n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate \nAldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/diverse-london-city-public-art-by-refugees-and-immigrants-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20240531T140715Z
CREATED:20240531T140047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T140715Z
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SUMMARY:Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
DESCRIPTION:On 21-22 June the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is hosting a hybrid conference entitled Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII. In January 1939 the RIBA set up a special committee to deal with the increasing number of requests of assistance from architects from Nazi-occupied Central Europe. The Refugee Committee Papers are held in the RIBA Archives and have inspired ongoing research on the topic\, of which this conference – will be the first major output. \nFor full details\, click here and to book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/architects-seeking-refuge-on-the-brink-of-wwii/2024-06-22/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Educational events,Symposia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTSTAMP:20240531T140715Z
CREATED:20240531T140047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T140715Z
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SUMMARY:Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
DESCRIPTION:On 21-22 June the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is hosting a hybrid conference entitled Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII. In January 1939 the RIBA set up a special committee to deal with the increasing number of requests of assistance from architects from Nazi-occupied Central Europe. The Refugee Committee Papers are held in the RIBA Archives and have inspired ongoing research on the topic\, of which this conference – will be the first major output. \nFor full details\, click here and to book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/architects-seeking-refuge-on-the-brink-of-wwii/2024-06-21/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Educational events,Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTSTAMP:20240426T125242Z
CREATED:20240426T125133Z
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SUMMARY:Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, when she was fourteen years old\, Ilse Gross fled Germany for the safety of England. Alone. Seventeen years later\, she published her audacious first novel Fire in the Sun. Her pen name: Kathrine Talbot. Her German Jewish identity she carefully concealed. Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented\, first published in German in 2022\, recreates the life of a refugee who lost her parents and sister in the Holocaust and who resisted telling their stories until it was almost too late. Only at the end of her life did she turn her family’s fate into prose.\nIn the just-published English translation of his book\, Professor Dr. Christoph Ribbat of the University of Paderborn\, Germany\, traces the life of a once well-known but now nearly forgotten 20th century novelist from an Isle of Man internment camp to postwar Cornwall\, New York\, and California\, and then to a green hill in Sussex. He will be joined for this discussion of the new publication by Professor Sue Vice of the University of Sheffield\, who has written: ‘Christoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot\, née Ilse Gross … It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees\, and rush to find copies of Talbot’s fiction.’ \nPlease note that those signed up to attend this event will be able to benefit from a 20% discount on the cover price of the book. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/becoming-kathrine-talbot-a-jewish-refugee-and-the-novelist-she-invented/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTSTAMP:20240426T125213Z
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SUMMARY:Crossed Wires\, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Professor 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. Through friendship and comradeship\, a position in state-backed radio\, imprisonment\, exile\, networking in a new country\, re-emigration\, ill-treatment\, neglect\, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. \nSam Dolbear will then discuss his latest project\, on Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986)—a friend of Walter Benjamin\, Helen Grund and also Ernst Schoen⁠—a doctor who\, after fleeing Germany in 1933\, took up hand reading in Paris to make ends meet. She read the hands of anonymous members of certain professions—acrobats\, dancers\, and department-store managers—but also members of the surrealist and modernist avant-gardes of Paris and London: from Antonin Artaud to Romola Nijinsky to Marcel Duchamp to Virginia Woolf. His book Hand That Touch This Fortune Will:  A history and theory of hand reading (After Charlotte Wolff) is forthcoming with Ma Bibliothèque. \nSchoen and Wolff were friends in the early 1920s and both made it to London\, the former in 1933\, the latter in 1936. The session will address their differing experience of exiled life and their feelings about ‘returning’ to Germany after the end of the war – Schoen going back in 1947 on a BBC mission and\, permanently\, in 1951 and Wolff only twice\, for two short trips\, with great nervousness. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/crossed-wires-broken-lines-ernst-schoen-and-charlotte-wolff/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,Music,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240518T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240518T153000
DTSTAMP:20240502T104812Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - Art and Refugees in Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1930s the Hampstead Art scene rallied support to rescue artists trapped in Czechoslovakia under Nazi rule. Led by the refugee lawyer/artist Fred Ulman and his aristocratic English wife Diana Croft from their Downshire Hill house\, they formed the artist refugee committee. We learn about how their house became a refuge for artists and about the organizations that they were involved with. We visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time. \nBefore or after the tour you may wish to visit the Isokon Gallery and/or 2 Willow Road (advance booking required). \n  \n\n\n\nBook here. \n  \n\nMeet in the forecourt outside Wagamama\, 58-62 Heath Street\, London\, NW31EN. \nYou can check travel options at the Transport for London Journey Planner. \n\nPicture: The Coffee Cup\, Hampstead which Fred Uhlman frequented by Marilyn Greene
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/diverse-london-art-and-refugees-in-hampstead/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20240426T125855Z
CREATED:20240426T125814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T125855Z
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SUMMARY:Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 8 May at 5pm\, there will be a special 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. This will be followed by a Q&A hosted by cultural historian Julia Winckler\, with the artist present. The event also marks the recent publication of the two-volume limited edition artist’s book\, Barbara Loftus: The Distanced Observer. \nTo book\, email euphemia@maggs.com with ‘Barbara Loftus Screening’ as the subject heading. \nImage: Barbara Loftus\, Passing (detail)\, oil on canvas
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/59414/
LOCATION:Maggs Booksellers\, 8 Bedford Square\, London\, WC1B 3DR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Film,Film screenings,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T180000
DTSTAMP:20240407T084145Z
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SUMMARY:Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Otti Berger (1898-1944) was a hugely talented Jewish textile designer\, born in present-day Croatia\, who both studied and taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau\, Germany. She found temporary refuge in the UK in 1937-8 but failed to thrive here\, and ultimately perished in Auschwitz. \nBerger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus\, she also was a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Yet to date Berger’s textile work has only been explored in fragments. \nTo 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. The book is the first comprehensive study of the complexity and beauty of Berger’s work and makes her treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible in full for the first time. It also highlights the largely unrecognized significance of textiles in the history of architecture and design. Judith will be joined by British design historian Tanya Harrod\, author of the chapter about Berger’s time in England. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nFrom 12 March until 24 August\, the temporary bauhaus-archiv in Berlin will play host to an installation by Judith Raum\, also entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture. The exhibition features a new video piece alongside two large scale wall-spanning fabrics.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/otti-berger-weaving-for-modernist-architecture/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240415T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240415T180000
DTSTAMP:20240407T085637Z
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SUMMARY:Mid-European Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Andrea 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 – 80 years ago this year. In fact\, this was an extraordinary project with a remarkable history\, an exhibition of world-class avant-garde German art condemned by the Nazis as ‘degenerate’ held in a provincial gallery in wartime Britain and organised largely by the Free German League of Culture\, set up by refugees from Nazi persecution.\nAs the impassioned Foreword to the modest catalogue put it: “The instability of the period is reflected in the paintings… The rise of Hitlerism destroyed the schools and the spirit\, exiled and oppressed the men and their works. Modern art was persecuted. Here we can only show and judge what was attempted before this catastrophe overtook the creative spirit of a continent… We wish to thank all those who have loaned their pictures… and rescued them from certain destruction.” \nAndrea will explain how she set about reconstructing this remarkable and still too little-known exhibition\, and will be joined by Simon Lake\, former Curator of Fine Art at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery\, who will set the exhibition in its local context\, focussing on the links between the German-Jewish Hess family and Leicester\, and the role of British curator Trevor Thomas. \n  \nTo book\, click here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/mid-european-art-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T180000
DTSTAMP:20240407T084248Z
CREATED:20240226T173027Z
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SUMMARY:Memorials\, Past and Present: Caren Garfen in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
DESCRIPTION:London-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research. When these facets are combined\, the artworks transcend their materiality\, transforming them into powerful dialogues that explore and reflect upon the pressing issues that resonate within our society. Since 2019\, Caren has been delving into themes concerning the Holocaust and examining the troubling resurgence of global antisemitism in the 21st century. Her recent works have been exhibited in Australia\, Bulgaria\, Canada\, Germany\, Latvia and the UK. \nIn conversation with Insiders/Outsiders founding director\, art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen\, Caren will explore artworks crafted over the past five years\, motivated by her urgent mission to memorialise those murdered during the Holocaust and beyond. One of these\, the 2021 project Fragments – which examines the fashion and textile industry in Berlin in the 1930s\, and the impact of Nazi policies of that period on Jewish clothing manufacturers\, designers\, design houses and fashion stores – acts as a dark backdrop to the theme of Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style\, the exhibition currently showing at the Museum of London Docklands until 14 April. \nPrompted by the devastating events of the 7 October 2023 massacre of Israelis\, and the disturbing surge in antisemitism\, Caren has recognised the necessity of continuously updating and stitching many of her pieces in real time and will delve into the significance of documenting our recent history through a closer examination of selected works. \nImage: Fragments (detail)\, 2021 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/memorials-past-and-present-caren-garfen-in-conversation-with-monica-bohm-duchen/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T180000
DTSTAMP:20240226T171457Z
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SUMMARY:Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution
DESCRIPTION:  \nBorn in Leeds in 1903 to Russian-Jewish emigrants\, as a young woman Esther Sinovitch (Simpson from 1933) stood out academically and musically. With a first-class degree from Leeds University\, she initially worked as a secretary in Paris\, Vienna and Geneva. But when Hitler assumed power in 1933\, she took a job in London at the Academic Assistance Council\, newly set up to rescue displaced German scholars. Over more than five decades\, her work for the Academic Assistance Council and its successor\, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning\, ensured refuge for thousands of displaced academics worldwide and had a profound impact on twentieth-century science\, philosophy\, philology\, architecture and art history. By the end of her life\, Esther could count among her ‘children’\, as she called them\, sixteen Nobel Prize winners\, eighteen Knights\, seventy-four fellows of the Royal Society and thirty-four fellows of the British Academy. Her ‘children’ also made a major contribution to Allied victory in World War Two. \nSurprisingly\, she has remained a largely unknown historical figure. John Eidinow’s book is a study of Esther Simpson: who she was and how she lived\, what moved her to take up and never to relinquish her calling\, her impact on the world\, and the historical context that helped shape her achievements. \nJohn Eidinow has published three books with his co-author David Edmonds: Wittgenstein’s Poker\, Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Rousseau’s Dog and a novel\, Innocence to Die For. He was a presenter/interviewer for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio\, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues. \nThe session will be chaired by writer David Herman. \n  \nImage: book cover \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/esther-simpson-the-true-story-of-her-mission-to-save-scholars-from-hitlers-persecution/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Music,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T180000
DTSTAMP:20240228T162642Z
CREATED:20240226T173027Z
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SUMMARY:Peter László Péri (1889-1967) - Péri's People
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition “Peter László Péri – Péri’s People” at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen (which runs from 10 March to 2 June 2024\, and is organized in cooperation with Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin)\, draws attention to a fascinating sculptor who contradicts the common narrative of modern art in the 20th century. He began as a constructivist and ended as a figurative artist. Yet he was not a traditional academic sculptor but combined the achievements of the avant-garde with a socialist-influenced idea of realism. \nPéri was born Ladislas Weisz in Budapest in 1889. Peri became the Hungarianized family name in 1918. In 1919 he participated in the Hungarian soviet republic\, and in 1920 settled in Berlin. At the beginning of 1933\, as a Jew and Communist\, he had to leave Germany and moved to London with his second\, English\, wife. These brief facts reveal a biography typical of all too many Jewish artists in early 20th century Europe\, and they also explain why so many of these artists remain overlooked. Despite all the methodological innovations of the discipline\, art history is still written primarily according to national patterns. And artists who were forced to move through Europe fall through the cracks. Hungarian and German art history is mostly interested in Péri before 1933\, while English art history focuses on the artist after 1933. This lecture by Arie Hartog will present the results of recent research on Péri and represents a more holistic approach. \n  \nDr. Arie Hartog has been the director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen since 2009\, having previously worked there as a curator. Since 2013 he has been the chair of the AG Bildhauermuseen and Skulpturensammlungen\, the German working group for sculptor museums and sculpture collections. His research focus is the history of sculpture in the 20th century and the posthumous afterlife of modernist sculpture. \nImage: Peter László Péri\, Reflections\, mid-1960s (detail) © The Estate of Peter László Péri \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/peter-laszlo-peri-1889-1967-peris-people/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240304T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240304T180000
DTSTAMP:20240229T102158Z
CREATED:20231114T093115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T102158Z
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SUMMARY:The Lives of Edith Hoffmann\, Art Historian
DESCRIPTION:Edith Hoffmann\, who lived for 108 ½ years\, 1907-2016\, was brought up in Germany and reached London in 1934. After four years of volunteering in various jobs\, her involvement in the exhibition “20th-Century German Art” led to her twelve-year employment at the Burlington Magazine\, to which she continued to contribute while accompanying her Israeli diplomat husband to various countries. She has been termed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”. She wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka. \nYonna Yapou-Kromholz\, daughter of Edith Hoffmann(-Yapou)\, is an art historian\, as was her mother.  After studying at the Courtauld Institute\, and a 15-year stint as curator at the Israel Museum\, Jerusalem\, she contributed exhibition reviews to Apollo Magazine from the United States. She is now living in Jerusalem. \n  \nImage: Edith Hoffmann\, 1950 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-lives-of-edith-hoffmann-art-historian/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:From Berlin to London: The Industrial Photography of Walter & Rita Nurnberg
DESCRIPTION:Nick Warr and Simon Dell – the curators of a fascinating exhibition Norwich Works: The Industrial Photography of Walter and Rita Nurnberg currently on at Norwich Castle Museum until 14 April – will talk about the too little known German-born émigré photographers Walter and Rita Nurnberg.Walter (1907-1991) and Rita (1914-2001) Nurnberg established a commercial photographic studio in London in 1934 after relocating from Germany. Walter\, a former pupil and tutor at the prestigious Reimann School of Art and Design in Berlin\, made a name for himself in product photography. After the Second World War\, the Nurnbergs concentrated their collective skills in documenting and celebrating the workers of Britain. \nOver the subsequent decade\, the Nurnbergs made photographs for many of the nation’s most significant companies and their distinctive style of black and white images transformed the image of post-war British industry. While the work they produced for three Norwich manufacturing institutions – Boulton and Paul\, Mackintosh-Caley and Edwards and Holmes – form the centrepiece of the current exhibition\, the speakers will set this work in the broader context of Walter and Rita Nurnberg’s lives and careers. \nDr.Nick Warr is Lecturer in Art History and Curation in the School of Art\, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia\, Norwich. He is also Curator of Photographic Collections\, Course Director of Art History and World Art Studies\, and Academic Director of the East Anglian Fim Archive. \nDr.Simon Dell is an art historian who taught at the University of East Anglia for over twenty years. His key research interests include photography\, with special reference to France\, Germany\, the Soviet Union and the United States\, and the relationship of the visual and the political in interwar Europe. \nImage: Walter and Rita Nurnberg\, Delivery of Soles\, 1948 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/from-berlin-to-london-the-industrial-photography-of-walter-rita-nurnberg/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Photography,What's On
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. \nStarts Opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road\, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate\, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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