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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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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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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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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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.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
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Albert Reuss Exhibition
Truro Cathedral High Cross, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomThe works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
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Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
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George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomLived and Imagined Histories : Some Thoughts on the Work of First and Second Generation (Jewish) Visual Artists
Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, presents the series’ opening seminar, in honour of the new exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.
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*Postponed* Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain after 1933
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThis Women’s History Month, we celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
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Naum Gabo
Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United KingdomTate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.
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Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomJacques Groag, architect and furniture designer, and Jacqueline Groag, textile and pattern designer, were two celebrated residents of the Isokon building in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Between Two Worlds
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United KingdomBetween Two Worlds explores the art created during this tumultuous period featuring work by John Minton, Fred Uhlman, Josef Herman and Ben Enwonwu. It draws exhibits from Derbyshire County Council’s collection, such as the bequest of Arto Funduklian, the son of Armenian émigrés, including work by Marc Chagall, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis.
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Festival of Belonging
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester, United KingdomFrom March 7-14th – featuring one-off events and nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts to examine how we assimilate in new places, explore what makes us feel that we belong and question what happens when we do not.
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Only the Violins Remain: Alma and Arnold Rosé
Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Rd, London, United KingdomThe story of a father and daughter – icons of Austrian musical life – whose careers were cut short by the Nazis. Arnold fled to London but Alma was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she led the Women’s Orchestra and saved the lives of many women prisoners, before perishing in the camp.
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Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United KingdomThis exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939 this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.