On Tuesday 18 April at 11am, Daniel Snowman, author of the pioneering The Hitler Emigrés and one of the trustees of the Insiders/Outsiders Arts Foundation, will give an online talk ‘The Cultural Impact on Britain of the Refugees from Nazism’, moderated by Paul Smith OBE, The British Council’s Director for Germany. The event is organised by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development…
On April 21, the Yale Center for British Art is holding one-day online symposium about Isokon Ltd, the 1930s design company that commissioned one of the Britain’s first modernist buildings, and an iconic range of plywood furniture by émigré designers including Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. The symposium will explore all aspects of Isokon’s design output in the 1930s, and its…
On Monday 24 April at 6pm, there will be an online event to mark the publication of a new thematic issue of European Judaism, entitled Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists. The publication, which brings together contributions by artists, curators and academics, explores second-generation visual art practices in the UK, as well as the Netherlands, Canada and Israel. After…
On Thursday 27 April at 8pm (nb later than usual), there will be a talk by Rebecca Moden to mark the publication by Palgrave Macmillan of her new book, Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images, which examines the fruitful relationship, both personal and professional, between the eminent British writer Iris Murdoch and Berlin-born visual artist Harry Weinberger. To…
On Monday 15 May at 6pm, children’s author, artist, illustrator and printmaker Kathy Henderson will be in conversation with Daniel Snowman about her new book, My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family. Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography, told through the stories passed down by its…
On Thursday 18 May at 6pm, art historian and curator Alexandra Lazar will give an online talk about her recent researches into the life and work of German-born architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, who settled in the UK in 1937. Booking details to come. Image: Arthur Korn teaches at the Architectural Association School in London, 1950s.
On Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 September, Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering, the 2023 Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies will take place in person at the University of London Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU and online via Zoom. Booking opens on…
On Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 September, Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering, the 2023 Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies will take place in person at the University of London Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU and online via Zoom. Booking opens on…
