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.
London-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research.
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.
To 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.
Film 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.
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.
n 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.
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.
René featured in last year’s ‘Refugees at Dartington’ online conference. But there’s more to reveal.
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.
A rare Jewish émigré to return to Germany immediately after WWII, Jella Lepman (1891-1970) spearheaded an effort to re-educate the children of Germany, and the world, so they would become less susceptible to the pull of ultra-nationalism and xenophobia that led to the horrors of two world wars.
Discover the experimental 20th century architectural homes in a stroll through Highgate Village, Waterlow Park and the Holly Lodge Estate
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
Monica Bohm-Duchen will be giving a talk at Burgh House in Hampstead, about her photographer mother Dorothy Bohm.
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.
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
Roger 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.
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
In 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.
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.