Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
British medallic art spanning six centuries
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24 events found.
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British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, London, London, United Kingdom
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Mann at War
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomThe role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
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Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomMarianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
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Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
York Art Gallery Exhibition Square, York, Yorkshire, United KingdomThe ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art
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Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomCelebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
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Internment – Living with the Wire
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomDiscover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
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Refuge: The Art of Belonging
Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal, Cumbria, United KingdomThis exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
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The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech RepublicThe story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s.
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Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, United KingdomMore than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.
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Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeThis exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
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Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
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Albert Reuss in Mousehole
Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, United KingdomInterior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as […]
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George Adams – Bauhausler in Britain
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomFeaturing the work of George Adams (1904-1983).
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Poetry Book Display
The National Poetry Library Level 5, Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, United KingdomA display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe
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René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, United KingdomOn the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, United KingdomDuring the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.
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The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, Paris, FranceIn the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.
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Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Royal Cornwall Museum River Street, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomAlbert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.
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“Child Migrants Welcome?”
Migration Museum at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United KingdomCome to the screening of a series of short films about the welcome and non-welcome experienced by young people who have migrated to the UK – from Syrian children on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to Iraqi Kurdish youth in Norwich, to Eritreans in Harrow and Polish children in Sidmouth.
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomDisplay of gifted artworks
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A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSenate House, University of London Aspects of Exile This series of lectures, running from February to December 2019, will be given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London, who all have a strong interest in German-speaking exile from Nazism. […]
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London’s Czechoslovak Institute during World War II
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Insiders/Outsiders: Émigré Poster Designers
London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza, London, United KingdomLondon Transport commissioned many of the best émigré designers to produce some of the most distinctive posters on the network
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Great British Jews: A Celebration
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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