Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
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24 events found.
Exhibitions
Events
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Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom
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Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomMarianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
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Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
York Art Gallery Exhibition Square, York, Yorkshire, United KingdomThe ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art
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Internment – Living with the Wire
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomDiscover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomDisplay of gifted artworks
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Great British Jews: A Celebration
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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National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London, United KingdomNational Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
The Pier Arts Centre Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, United KingdomMargaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
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Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomFollowing the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
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Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road, Oxford, United KingdomThis display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.
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Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United KingdomExhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
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The Bauhaus in Britain
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
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Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomMarie Neurath – an émigré graphic designer and author, led a team at the Isotype Institute that produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971. The pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers produced infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts.
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The Art of Eugene Halliday and Käthe Schuftan
Tan-y-Garth Hall Retreat Pontfadog, Llangollen, North Wales, United KingdomKäthe Schuftan was a Jewish artist who escaped from Berlin in June 1939. Her work was linked with both Käthe Kollwitz and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, including Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Selected dates from September to April
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The Bauhaus in Bristol
The Ken Stradling Collection 48 Park Row, Bristol, United KingdomThe Ken Stradling Collection is very pleased to be taking part in the international celebrations marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
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Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomHampstead has been a place of refuge, reflection and community for centuries. This exhibition aims to show the response of some of its most creative residents to the tumultuous political events of the early twentieth century; from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of the Nazi party and the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond.
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Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
Architecture Gallery, RIBA 66 Portland Place, London, London, United KingdomThis exhibition revisits the impact of three notable Bauhaus émigrés: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. Centred on the brief period of 1934-37, when they came to live and work in Britain, it traces this fertile moment in British architectural history and considers where its legacy has had the most enduring impact.
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László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus
RIBA First Floor Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London, United KingdomThis display draws on the RIBA’s unique holdings to demonstrate both the range of Moholy-Nagy’s British work and the strong ties that he established with modernist architects in Britain.
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Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Museum of Gloucester Brunswick Road, Gloucester, United KingdomThe exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
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Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus
Willam Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London, Walthamstow, United KingdomThe William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Brent Civic Centre Engineers Way, London, Wembley, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
Willesden Library 95 High Road, London, Willesden, United Kingdom20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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Heartfield: One Man’s War
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomAn exhibition of prints by the renowned photomontage artist John Heartfield. A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield is known as the inventor of political photomontage. 33 of Heartfield’s scathingly satirical artworks against war, fascism and the Third Reich will be on display.