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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – The woodcut print in Germany after WWI: Remorse\, redemption\, reparation
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nAs became all too familiar after the Holocaust\, the experience of suffering and inhumanity often proves to be unrepresentable. However\, in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany\, the opposite was the case. Here\, a flood of works on paper gave Expressionist artists and their bruised public an outlet for sentiments that ranged from an insistence on bearing witness to the horrors of trench warfare\, to grief and despair; and to a redemptive hope on the other side. \nBased on the extraordinary evidence of woodcut prints made by Fred Kormis as a prisoner of war in Siberia\, this lecture explores the context of printmaking around 1918. Highlighting the cathartic process of woodcut printing for fellow sculptors and graphic artists Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz\, it considers the qualities of this spare graphic medium that make it suited to the direct expression of existential extremes. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr Niccola Shearman is a historian of twentieth-century European art\, with a focus on Germany and Austria to 1945. She has taught a variety of undergraduate courses at The Courtauld Institute and at the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to Courtauld Short Courses and to the V&A Academy. \nNiccola’s PhD (2018) concerned the intense wave of woodcut printmaking in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany. She has published articles on this subject and on related themes of art and empathy. Further research interests lie in the art of modernist Vienna\, and in the careers of Viennese exiles to the UK under the rise of Nazism. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Christian Rohlfs\, The Prisoner\, (detail) woodcut print\, 1918
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-woodcut-print-in-germany-after-wwi-remorse-redemption-reparation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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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:20241112T183000
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DTSTAMP:20240919T144354Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Event – Curators’ talk: Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Helen Lewandowski
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nIn this talk\, Barbara Warnock and Helen Lewandowski will explore the genesis and development of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century exhibition\, from the deposit of the Fred Kormis Collection at the Wiener Library shortly after Kormis’ death in 1986\, to its rediscovery by Library staff in recent years\, and the process of the curation of the exhibition. They will discuss the collection and the themes explored in the exhibition. \nThis event includes an opportunity for a private view of the exhibition. \nAbout the speakers:  \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust\, Berlin-London; The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon; Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today\, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti\, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019)\, a Spectator Book of the Year\, and the editor of Anti-Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe\, 1890-2022 (2022). She has written a number of articles on refugee history\, the Nazi persecution of Roma and the history of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner. \nDr Helen Lewandowski is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2020 to 2023\, she was Assistant Curator and Project Officer for the Refugee Family Papers at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she developed an exhibition on the life and works of Fred Kormis. Her doctoral research at The Courtauld Institute of Art examined aesthetic changes in modern and contemporary photography. She has curated exhibitions\, lectured\, and published on numerous subjects\, spanning photography\, printmaking\, and sculpture. Dr Lewandowski is currently Assistant Curator at the Royal Collection Trust. Previously\, she held curatorial positions at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Fred Kormis in his London studio\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-event-curators-talk-dr-barbara-warnock-and-dr-helen-lewandowski/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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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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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:20241128T183000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – A secret garden? Fred Kormis and the Memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914-1945
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nHolocaust memory has become seemingly ubiquitous. New memorials or museums continue to be built\, the Holocaust is on the national education curricula in many countries far away from the sites of atrocity\, and tens of thousands of visitors flock to sites of former concentration or extermination camps or engage online with new forms of digital interpretation and commemoration. \nAt the same time a reappraisal of the history of Holocaust memorialisation by David Cesarani and others suggests that while there has certainly been significant growth in the material manifestations of Holocaust memory since the 1980s\, a focus on this has tended to overlook the memory work that went on during the Holocaust itself and in the decades immediately afterwards. One such marginalised memorial is the ‘prisoners of war and victims of concentration camps 1914-1945’ in Gladstone Park\, located in the suburb of Dollis Hill\, northwest London. \nConceived by renowned Jewish émigré sculptor Fred Kormis in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust\, the memorial comprises five figures which take the viewer on a symbolic journey through the mental state of a prisoner of war or concentration camp victim. \nUnveiled in 1969\, a decade before the contentious campaign for what would eventually become the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial\, Kormis’s life and work illustrates how Holocaust memory has a history and a geography\, a geography understood as imaginative and well as material. \nThis talk will argue that reconstructing the biography of the Dollis Hill memorial as a site of creative and disruptive practice helps us understand the long\, complex\, and ongoing histories of Holocaust memorialisation in the UK\, including the soon to be completed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre near the Houses of Parliament. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Steven Cooke’s work focuses on cultural heritage and difficult histories. Over a thirty-year career in academia and professional practice\, he has authored over 40 scholarly publications\, including three highly commended books on the memory of war and genocide. After a PhD on Britain’s memorial landscapes of the Holocaust\, Steve spent five years in higher education in the UK\, first as a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling then as a Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Hull. \nIn 2002\, he moved to Australia and worked in high level management positions in some of Victoria’s most significant places\, including the Melbourne Maritime Museum – home of Polly Woodside and the Shrine of Remembrance. In 2011 he returned to academia at Deakin University where he was an Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and served as course director for the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Programs. He was appointed as Expert to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Memorials and Museum Working Group by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 201. In 2024 Steve was appointed as CEO of the newly redeveloped Melbourne Holocaust Museum. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Languages\, Cultures and Societies at the University of London. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Fred Kormis’ memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914 – 1945\, Gladstone Park\, London. Photograph: Adam Soller
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-a-secret-garden-fred-kormis-and-the-memorial-to-prisoners-of-war-and-victims-of-concentration-camps-1914-1945/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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