Hybrid Exhibition Talk – Dedication in Sculpture: The Story of Naomi Blake FRSS
This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
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Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK
Virtual EventIn 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.
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Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) – The Spiral of Life
Virtual EventThis 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.
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I Had to Be Present: Oto Bihalji-Merin, art historian, editor, publisher, art critic and activist
Virtual EventOto 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.
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
Virtual EventRüdiger 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.
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Of Penguins, Albatrosses, Pelicans and Kings: Refugees from Nazism at Penguin Books
Virtual EventTo 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.
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Schools on the move: Bunce Court, Gordonstoun and Camphill. A talk by Marjorie Downward
Virtual EventAs a result of exile from their homelands, Jewish refugee educators founded many schools in the UK. The schools were mostly boarding schools based on the principle of ‘Landerziehungsheime’ – ‘countryside educational homes.’
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**POSTPONED**From Publishing Innovator to Corporate Dealmaker: Paul Hamlyn & the Transformation of UK Publishing
Virtual EventAn émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany, Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger,1926-2001) was an innovative publisher who re-engineered the publishing model and systemised creativity.
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Rogues and Scholars Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000
Virtual EventTo mark the recent publication by Bloomsbury of his book Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000: James Stourton: Apollo, James Stourton will discuss his chosen topic.
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‘The Ark’: Wedgwood and European Refugees, 1933 -1945
Virtual EventBetween 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.
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In the English Tradition? Rima Model Gowns in the 1940s
Virtual EventIn 1939, Leo and Greta Neumann established the fashion business ‘Rima Model Gowns’ at 8 St. George Street, Hannover Square, London.
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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.”
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Kosher Giraffe Trilogy: A talk by Hugo Max
Virtual EventIn 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.
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The Glyndebourne Émigrés
Virtual EventIn 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.
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Hans Hess: The Goods have become the Gods
Virtual EventTo 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.
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Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United KingdomIn this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards
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Walking Tour – Diverse London – Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Discover how Hampstead’s war-time artistic scene supported and helped save refugee artists from Nazi Europe enabling them to come to London
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Comrades in Art – For Peace, Democracy and Cultural Freedom
Virtual EventIn the autumn of 1933 a group of twenty-something largely unknown artists and designers felt impelled to begin organising against the threat of fascism and war. They determined to create a London-based artists’ auxiliary in support of progressive causes.
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Activism Through Art: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain
Virtual EventSociologist Larry Ray, one of the contributors to the anthology Poverty for Sale: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain, recently published by MuseumsEtc, will give a talk about the life and work of photographer and committed communist Edith Tudor Hart.
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Walking Tour – Diverse London – City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art by immigrants and refugees
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The Refugee and the Survivor – a Family Story
Virtual EventThis illustrated presentation by Michael Lewis weaves together the story of his parents, of his father, a refugee from Nazi persecution and his mother, a Holocaust survivor. It draws on her memoir, A Time to Speak (1992) and Michael’s own book, Flight from Prague – the Making of a Refugee (2025), which for the first time tells his father’s story.
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Creativity & Forced Migrations
Virtual EventBurcu Dogramaci & Owen Hatherley in Conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
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Paul Hamlyn: Outsider, Innovator, Dealmaker
Virtual EventThis talk examines the career of Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger) (1926-2001), a story of personal ambition, publishing innovation, and industry change.
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Romek Marber (1925-2020): The Man who Vowed Never to Return
Romek Marber is probably most famous for the design of over seventy book covers for the Penguin Crime series in the 1960s as well as for the development of the Marber grid which made the layout of Penguin cover pages consistent across titles.
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