Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: John Heartfield: Art and Politics in 1930s Britain
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Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom
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Soldiering on: Czech Freedom Fighters in Great Britain 1940 -1945
Czech Embassy Cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United KingdomMarking the 80th anniversary of the 1939 occupation of Czechoslovakia the event showcases the work by refugee filmmakers Jiri Weiss and Karel Lamač who captured the fellow countrymen in short films for the Ministry of Information.
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The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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In conversation: Artist Heather Ross and Performer/Musician Florian Kaplick
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomAs part of a closing event to mark the end of Heather Ross’s solo show The Loud and the Soft Speakers the artist will be in conversation with the performer Florian Kaplick. They will discuss how they collaborated on the performance within The Loud and the Soft Speakers, the process undertaken in the development and formation of this work and share their thoughts on how this can be contextualised with respect to the work of Kurt Schwitters.
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What Does Woman Want?
Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United KingdomThe relation of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and femininity is complex and laden with controversy. From its inception, psychoanalytic thought about female development was largely defined by men. Sabina Spielrein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, and Marie Bonaparte were among the intimate circle of Freud’s Women who challenged the main pillars of the 19th/early 20th century patriarchal social order.
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Kurt Schwitters in Britain
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The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The Laboratory, Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London, United Kingdom80 years ago 10,000 children came to Britain as unaccompanied refugees on the Kindertransport from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, escaping Nazi Europe. Following a screening of some extracts of interviews, the panel discussion with two former Kinder, chaired by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive, will explore how the Kinder adapted in Britain and how they dealt with being separated from their families and their homes
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Ludwig Meidner and Oskar Kokoschka
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Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomAn illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
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The experience of the Kindertransport in oral history testimonies
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Insiders/Outsiders
Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomMonica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne
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Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, United KingdomRefugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival
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Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomLeyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication ‘Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain’ will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.
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The Social Eye of Picture Post
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomPicture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.
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German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
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Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomWhen Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s. John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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The Life and Work of Friedrich Nagler: A Conversation
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United KingdomJoin Friedrich Nagler’s sons, Mervyn and Martin, in a conversation about this extraordinary artist to discuss their father’s life, experience and work.
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Insiders/Outsiders – An Evening with Monica Bohm-Duchen and Sir Norman Rosenthal
Waterstones 68-69 Hampstead High Street, London, United KingdomInsiders/Outsiders, published by Lund Humphries to accompany the nationwide arts festival, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe. Independent art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the festival, will be in conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London between 1977 and 2008, to discuss their shared interest – both personal and professional – in the rich cultural terrain covered by the book.
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Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House
Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United KingdomFor 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.
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Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House
Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United KingdomFor 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.
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Stories of Migration from Picture Post Magazine 1938–56
Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate, London, United KingdomTo coincide with the exhibition Refugees, Newcomers & Citizens the ACF will host a special talk with Amanda Hopkinson, daughter of Austrian photographer Gerti Deutsch and Picture Post editor, Tom Hopkinson. She will discuss the photographers and stories featured in the exhibition alongside the contribution made to British life by very different groups of immigrants, from those arriving on the Kindertransport to the SS Empire Windrush generation.
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