• ‘On Dorothy Bohm’: An Illustrated Lecture

    Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United Kingdom
    Virtual Event

    Monica Bohm-Duchen will be giving a talk at Burgh House in Hampstead, about her photographer mother Dorothy Bohm.

    Free
  • Insight and Observation: The Life and Work of Gerda Rubinstein (1931-2022)

    Virtual Event

    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.

    Free
  • Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK

    Virtual Event

    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.

    Free
  • Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) – The Spiral of Life

    Virtual Event

    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.

    Free
  • I Had to Be Present: Oto Bihalji-Merin, art historian, editor, publisher, art critic and activist

    Virtual Event

    Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904-1993) was a Yugoslav-Jewish art historian, editor, publisher, art critic and activist whose creative life fused multiple languages, identities and cultures in response to the historical and political contexts of the 20th century and whose legacy lies in his advocacy for art that transcends formal training, emphasizing human creativity and imagination.

    Free
  • In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig

    Virtual Event

    Rüdiger Görner, Professor Emeritus of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, will be in conversation with writer and critic David Herman about his latest book, In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig.

    Free
  • Of Penguins, Albatrosses, Pelicans and Kings: Refugees from Nazism at Penguin Books

    Virtual Event

    To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books, Dr. Anna Nyburg, author of Émigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon, 2014), will pay tribute to the disproportionately large number of former refugees from Nazi Europe who contributed to the company’s extraordinary success.

    Free
  • ‘The Ark’: Wedgwood and European Refugees, 1933 -1945

    Virtual Event

    Between 1933-1945, thousands of European refugees escaping Nazi persecution sought refuge in Britain. Due to an apathetic British Government, assistance for refugees was the responsibility of individuals, organisations, and businesses, such as Wedgwood.

    Free
  • Käthe Schuftan, ‘Prophetess of Spirit’: the rediscovery of a forgotten artist

    Virtual Event

    “She believed in creative energy . . . She has lived, and always with her art and her great energy tried to provoke everybody else to live, in the light of freedom, in the light of spirit; and if, therefore, we could have a way of remembering her, let us always remember her as a prophetess of spirit and of freedom. That is all that she would want from us.”

    Free
  • Kosher Giraffe Trilogy: A talk by Hugo Max

    Virtual Event

    In his latest publication Austrian-British multidisciplinary artist Hugo Max explores the internment of his great-grandfather as an ‘enemy alien’ on the Isle of Man during the Second World War.

    Free
  • The Glyndebourne Émigrés

    Virtual Event

    In its first years of existence, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera set out to internationalize English opera culture, both by attracting international artists and leading proponents of a new concept of opera production and by giving émigrés the chance to further hone skills developed in Central Europe and beyond.

    Free
  • Hans Hess: The Goods have become the Gods

    Virtual Event

    To mark the recent publication by the Manifesto Press of Volume 3 of Hans Hess: Selected Writings, Dr. Lucy Burke, Academic Director of the new Hans Hess Foundation, will introduce us to an important but hitherto under-examined art historian, curator and left-wing cultural activist.

    Free
  • Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United Kingdom

    In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards

    £12.50