Jacques 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.
Art dealer René Gimpel will be in discussion with Sue Grayson Ford MBE, co-curator of last year’s Brave New Visions exhibition at Sotheby’s.
The Emigré Contribution to Animation Film-making in 1940s Britain.
Nancy Greenspan will discuss this still under-explored aspect of World War Two internment history
Marion Kant and Clare Lidbury discuss a deeply problematic yet influential dance philosophy and aesthetic.
An event dedicated to photographer Peter Rauter, focussing on his 1990s 'Immigrants of Influence' series.
Julia Crockatt will be in conversation with photographic researcher John March about her remarkable grandmother Laelia Goehr.
Pamela Howard in conversation with Di Trevis, Charles Woolff and Simon Callow about stage designer and artist Ralph Koltai.
Alan Powers will discuss the subject of his latest book 'Abbatt Toys: Modern Toys for Modern Children'
Simon Lake, former curator at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, will tell the story of a remarkable artist, Johannes Matthaeus Koelz
Yvonne Cresswell, Curator of Social History at Manx National Heritage, will provide a fascinating insight into this rich archival material.
This unique event will be held in émigré sculptor Siegfried Charoux’s former studio in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, NW11, which has only rarely been opened to the public since his death in 1967.
