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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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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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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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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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomDisplay of gifted artworks
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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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National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London, United KingdomNational Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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The Tailor of Inverness – Theatre Tour
The Tailor of Inverness is one of the most widely travelled and highly praised Scottish theatre productions of the last decade. Written and performed by Matthew Zajac
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
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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Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, 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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Litz Pisk’s Pedagogic and Artistic Influence on Post-War British Theatre
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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Anna Freud and the Conscience of Society
Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United KingdomDrawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this new digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education.
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
The Pier Arts Centre Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, United KingdomMargaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
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